Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1714.
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The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
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The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
On liberty (1859) -
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer there are for a player to break.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
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The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
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The French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
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The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
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