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Dorothy Thompson has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or…
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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can…
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The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
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Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why,…
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There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
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Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that…
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination,…
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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad…
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All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law…
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No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
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History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage…
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It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth…
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Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed…
— Rowan Williams
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...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform…
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The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or…
— Elizabeth I
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Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give…
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