Adjustment Quote by Chico Xavier

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own…

— Charles E. Wilson

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time,…

— John Woolman

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

— Laozi

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice,…

— Ezra Stiles

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

— Joseph Conrad

Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot…

— Gunnar Myrdal

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars…

— Charles E. Wilson

In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands…

— Cecil Rhodes

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium,…

— Herman Gorter

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous…

— Leland Stanford