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"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."
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"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
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"Gift the children corruption free nation. Happy Children's day."
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"Children dwell in their dreams. Get them the wings and they'll fly."
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"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."
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"I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring."
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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
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"Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel."
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"The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that."
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"I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children."
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"I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place."
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"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."
Children

"If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker."
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"You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College."
Men

"We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens."
Government

"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system."
People

"Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism."
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"Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary."
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"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."
Children

"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed."
Woman

"We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance."
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