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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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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
— Matthew Arnold
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
— Clarence Darrow
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We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh
— James Joyce
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Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with…
— James A. Owen
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It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't…
— Simon R. Green
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I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
— Margaret Mitchell
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Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and…
— Erin Morgenstern
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects
— E E Cummings
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Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint…
— Ciaran Hinds
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Oxford whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs,…
— Matthew Arnold
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