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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next… — Maria Montessori
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes… — Mark Twain
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. — Thomas Carlyle
We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline. — Cesar Chavez
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott… — Cesar Chavez
I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but… — Cesar Chavez
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly
Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,… — Oscar Wilde
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer… — Joseph Conrad
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified… — George Santayana
Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social… — Brooks Atkinson
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to… — Elwyn Brooks White
Every man carries the entire form of human condition. — Michel de Montaigne
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they… — Ronald Reagan

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