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All Quotes Collection
"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."
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"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
11
"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."
2
"Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love."
5
"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice."
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"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
16
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
7
"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."
7
"Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs."
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"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
24
"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process."
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"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
12
"Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny."
2
"Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant."
3
"The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
3
"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."
4
"No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."
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"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes."
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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
13
"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
18
"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."
22
"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
11
"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
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"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
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"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
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"I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining."
19
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
5
"With self-discipline most anything is possible."
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"Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin."
13
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
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"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
3
"Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?"
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"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."
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