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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
— Vaclav Havel
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That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I…
— Unknown Author
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Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.
— Eric Murray
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I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.
— Norman Thomas
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There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.
— Russell Kirk
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
— Marguerite Young
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I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to…
— Joe Flanigan
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When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
— Matthew Arnold
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There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.
— Urijah Faber
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Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every…
— Albert Meltzer
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
— Clarence Darrow
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