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We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants.… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers… — James Harvey Robinson
A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a… — Walter Lippmann
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and… — Charles Caleb Colton
No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering.… — Edgar S. Brightman
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the… — Edmund Burke
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race… — Samuel Johnson
When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up… — Louis Thomas McFadden
The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money… — Curtis Bean Dall
The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out… — Paul Keating
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become… — Marsilio Ficino
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of… — Agatha Christie
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probableâ€”namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. â€¦ Heâ€™s at his best when he… — Unknown Author
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. — John Keats
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to… — L. Tom Perry
It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to… — H.G. Wells
So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to… — Edward Snowden

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