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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864 -
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Gettysburg Address, 19-11-1863 -
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
The Sabbath (1951) p. 3 -
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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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 excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 332 -
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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Through the soft ways of heaven, and air, and sea, Which open all their pores to thee, Like a clear river thou dost glide, And with they living stream through the close channel slide.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
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To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
The Conduct of Inquiry -
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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