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Quotes by Leader
"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."
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"The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves."
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"I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth."
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"When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever."
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"The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself."
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"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."
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"True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be."
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"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
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"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
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"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."
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"When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete."
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"Gentleness, self-sacrifice, and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion."
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"This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it."
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"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends."
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"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
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"Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted."
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"What we really are matters more than what other people think of us."
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"While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made."
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"Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us."
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"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."
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"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."
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"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."
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"Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it."
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"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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