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There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
Source: Up From Slavery (1901) ch. XII -
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Source: An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909) -
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
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Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
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The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
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The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
Source: Speech in Boston, 30-7-1903 -
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
Source: My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911) -
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
Source: Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895 -
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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