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• Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a… — Bobby Sands
• You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own. — Willis Lamb
• Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and… — Baltasar Gracian
• When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. — Georgia O'Keeffe
• When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their… — Richard M. Nixon
• How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes… — John Muir
• In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own… — Walter Lippmann
• It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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