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"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
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"Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."
"If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?"
"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
"Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals."
"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
"For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead."
"None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect."
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."
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