"It is obvious that no difficulty in the……" — Carl Clinton Van Doren

"It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it."

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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12 Quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren

Carl Clinton Van Doren has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course…
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken…
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale…
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when…
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to…
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest…
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject,…
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports…

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;… — Aristotle
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
Crying wolf is a real danger. — David Attenborough
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. — James A. Baldwin
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — John Adams
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably… — Drew Barrymore
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I… — Clara Barton
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire
The most dangerous people are the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the… — Kate Adie

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