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"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."

"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"

"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"

"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."

"To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity."
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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."

"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."

"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."

"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."

"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."

"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."

"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
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