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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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No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most…
— Michel de Montaigne
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What is it men cannot be made to believe!
— Thomas Jefferson
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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where…
— Thomas Malory
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Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.
— William Ernest Hocking
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
— Daniel Defoe
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A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households…
— Eva Cox
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The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or…
— Herbert Croly
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The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode…
— Walter Lippmann
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Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government…
— Unknown Author
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
— Gautama Buddha
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.
— Orville Dewey
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