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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.…
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing…
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
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There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high…
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No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to…
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…
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The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the…
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue…
— Aristotle
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
— Walter Bagehot
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of…
— Otto von Bismarck
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
— Edmund Burke
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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
— James Freeman Clarke
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In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ...…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
— Winston Churchill
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Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to…
— Howard W. Hunter
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The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of…
— Samuel Johnson
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