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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
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Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
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I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.
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I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
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You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.
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To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
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There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.
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As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.
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Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
William E. Gladstone