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[Quote No.34770] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. [Still, as Churchill said, it is better than all alternatives so far invented!]" - George Bernard Shaw
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[Quote No.34773] Need Area: Friends > General
"Cowardice asks, is it safe? Expediency asks, is it politic? Vanity asks, is it popular? But Conscience asks, is it right?" - William Morley Punshon
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[Quote No.34775] Need Area: Friends > General
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong [and along with the equal rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and property, the foundation belief of democracy]." - Jeremy Bentham
Political philosopher
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[Quote No.34786] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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[Quote No.34787] Need Area: Friends > General
"What is an adult? A child blown up by age." - Simone De Beauvoir
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[Quote No.34791] Need Area: Friends > General
"As a matter of general principle, I believe there can be no doubt that criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government ... too many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think that it will give some comfort to the enemy to know that there is such criticism. If that comfort makes the enemy feel better for a few moments, they are welcome to it as far as I am concerned, because the maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country maintaining it a great deal more good than it will do the enemy, and will prevent mistakes which might otherwise occur." - Robert A. Taft
Address to Executive Club of Chicago, December 19, 1941.
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[Quote No.34792] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle…. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." - Frederick Douglass
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[Quote No.34819] Need Area: Friends > General
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good, is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." - Dennis Wholey
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[Quote No.34822] Need Area: Friends > General
"Power may justly be compared to a great river. While kept within its due bounds it is both beautiful and useful. But when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. If, then, this is the nature of power, let us at least do our duty, and like wise men [and women] who value freedom use our utmost care to support liberty...." - Andrew Hamilton
The Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735.
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[Quote No.34823] Need Area: Friends > General
"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe. [This is contrary to the current media spin doctoring that foolishly believes that perception is reality and treating the voters as intelligent people worthy of receiving the truth in order to be able to use their freedom to make choices that are best for them is less important than the political party, politicians or bureaucrats looking good.]" - Abraham Lincoln
U.S. President
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[Quote No.34825] Need Area: Friends > General
"Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.34826] Need Area: Friends > General
"There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from other nations. [All nations must of necessity put the interests of their citizens first. To do any less would be a breach of their trust.]" - George Washington
Farewell Address, September 7, 1796.
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[Quote No.34827] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every fool finds a greater one to admire them." - Bioleau
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[Quote No.34828] Need Area: Friends > General
"To preserve independence, we must not let our [political] rulers load us with perpetual debt." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.34830] Need Area: Friends > General
"Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances." - Azarias
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[Quote No.34850] Need Area: Friends > General
"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit." - George Herbert
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[Quote No.34863] Need Area: Friends > General
"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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[Quote No.34864] Need Area: Friends > General
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." - Bertrand Russell
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[Quote No.34871] Need Area: Friends > General
"Inept [political, etc] authority first denies there is a problem, then says it is a minor problem and then, when it becomes a large problem, denies it was ever their fault. " - Dylan Grice
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[Quote No.34873] Need Area: Friends > General
"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws [individual responsibility, empathy and self-discipline]." - Walt Whitman
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[Quote No.34886] Need Area: Friends > General
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[Quote No.34891] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who easily forgive invite offenses. [Don't forgive others easily or quickly but don't become bitter either. Also don't try to get even [revenge]. Just know that person has proven themselves untrustworthy and dangerous and therefore keep them at arms length if you must have anything further to do with them at all.]" - Pierre Corneille
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[Quote No.34899] Need Area: Friends > General
"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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[Quote No.34902] Need Area: Friends > General
"When people are green with envy, they are ripe for evil [and special attention should be taken to protect yourself, loved ones and possessions when near them, lest they act on their envy]." - Saying
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[Quote No.34910] Need Area: Friends > General
"A civilization [team, company, family, etc] is built on what is required of men [women and children], not [just] on that which is provided for them. [That is - responsibilities as well as rights, obligations as well as opportunities, duties as well as desires! Why? Because if this negative side of the equation is neglected then the positives eventually disappear.]" - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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[Quote No.34914] Need Area: Friends > General
"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge [or lies], it is always simple and direct." - Calvin Coolidge
U.S. President
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[Quote No.34923] Need Area: Friends > General
"What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God." - Leo Buscaglia
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[Quote No.34927] Need Area: Friends > General
"Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. [Blind optimism should be replaced with optimistic realism!]" - Natalie Clifford Barney
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[Quote No.34935] Need Area: Friends > General
"If [an] economy were to falter, the government may resort to nationalism - by inciting geopolitical conflict with its neighbors - to maintain social cohesion." - Hao Li
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[Quote No.34937] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who hate you, don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon
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[Quote No.34947] Need Area: Friends > General
"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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[Quote No.34957] Need Area: Friends > General
"I think there is a good reason why the [political public relations] propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public [through focus group polling] will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them [in their totality. The practice seems to focus the public's attention on the positives rather than on getting a balanced perspective, on agreeing rather than information sharing and weighing each stakeholders' facts, opinions and feelings and then deciding.]" - Noam Chomsky
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[Quote No.34960] Need Area: Friends > General
"Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings [and governments]. " - Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)
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[Quote No.34964] Need Area: Friends > General
"Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it." - George Washington
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[Quote No.34984] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it." - Alexis De Tocqueville
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[Quote No.34985] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt
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[Quote No.34994] Need Area: Friends > General
"People who [ungratefully] bite the hand that feeds them usually [eventually] lick the boot that kicks them." - Eric Hoffer
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[Quote No.35006] Need Area: Friends > General
"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for yourself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice, a man is not a man [nor a womam a woman] but a member, an instrument, a thing!" - Archibald MacLeish
(1892 - 1982) U.S. administrator, dramatist, and poet.
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[Quote No.35008] Need Area: Friends > General
"Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed." - Charles Caleb Colton
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[Quote No.35009] Need Area: Friends > General
"Be noble and the nobleness that lies,
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will [may] rise in majesty to meet thine own." - James Russell Lowell
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[Quote No.35013] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot be separated." - James Madison
Speech at the Virginia Convention
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[Quote No.35014] Need Area: Friends > General
"The easy, gentle, and sloping path … is not the path of virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road." - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
'Essays', 1580.
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[Quote No.35019] Need Area: Friends > General
"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others." - Amelia Earhart
Famous female aeroplane pilot.
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[Quote No.35022] Need Area: Friends > General
"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes." - John Ruskin
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[Quote No.35026] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government, in its final analysis, is organized force." - Woodrow Wilson
U.S. President
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[Quote No.35029] Need Area: Friends > General
"I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion." - Calvin Coolidge
US President
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[Quote No.35035] Need Area: Friends > General
"What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us; what we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal." - Albert Pike
Masonic luminary.
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[Quote No.35052] Need Area: Friends > General
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Count Leo Tolstoy
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[Quote No.35056] Need Area: Friends > General
"All war represents a failure of diplomacy." - Tony Benn
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[Quote No.35064] Need Area: Friends > General
"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service." - Albert Einstein
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