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Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and…
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Men do not fail; they give up trying.
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When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and…
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The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a…
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The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and…
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About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.
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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such…
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There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points…
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Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of…
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Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is…
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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
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There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our…
— John F. Kennedy
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The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon…
— Edmund Burke
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Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which…
— Unknown Author
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The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side…
— Elihu Root
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It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought…
— Lew Wallace
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Whether heaven or hell or a world of admixture, it is all a state of mind, a condition of consciousness-being. The kingdom…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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