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All Quotes Collection
"We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue."
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"We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important."
35
"This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it."
68
"They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel."
32
"There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do."
39
"We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully."
34
"The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago."
39
"What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two."
37
"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."
63
"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."
45
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
44
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
42
"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
53
"To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it."
51
"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."
56
"The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service."
60
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
90
"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."
46
"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual."
42
"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."
52
"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."
52
"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
52
"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."
44
"Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism."
42
"A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses."
54
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
38
"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
42
"No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place."
25
"There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits."
21
"To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked."
22
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
20
"The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?"
21
"And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?"
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