Quotes 61 till 80 of 1254.
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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
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The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
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The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
Barbara C. Jordan--selected speeches -
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
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A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
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