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All Quotes Collection
"My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches."
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"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."
48
"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
44
"In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies."
50
"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
54
"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
47
"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline."
28
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."
34
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
121
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
46
"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
38
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
45
"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
50
"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
53
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
44
"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
59
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
41
"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
112
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
70
"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
45
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
46
"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
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