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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
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"Poor men's reasons are not heard."
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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."
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"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice."
Nature
"In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought."
Policy
"No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils."
Nation
"Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice."
People
"The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective."
Men
"Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts."
Circumstance
"War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition."
War
"The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify."
Peace
"To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism."
War
"It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct."
War
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