"The biggest labor problem is tomorrow."

Young, Brigham on labor   

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."

Mill, John Stuart on happiness   

"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."

Mill, John Stuart on individuality
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"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on debate
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"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on friends and friendship
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"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on nuclear age   

"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on propaganda   

"There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on civil rights
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"The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more."

Dhammapada on freedom
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"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

Macarthur, Douglas on defeat
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"There's no security on this earth, only opportunity."

Macarthur, Douglas on security
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"I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down."

Macarthur, Douglas on war   

"Success is 99 percent failure."

Honda, Soichiro on failure
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"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on work
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"If it's not growing, it's going to die."

Eisner, Michael on growth
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"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."

Guthrie, Arlo on light   

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."

Erasmus, Desiderius on light   

"Fear is the foundation of most government."

Adams, John on government
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"The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government."

Beecher, Henry Ward on government
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"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man."

Beveridge, Baron William Henry on government   

"A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward."

Bismarck, Otto Von on government   

"Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people."

Cleveland, Grover on government   

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"The lunatic fringe wags the underdog."

Mencken, H. L. on eccentricity
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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

Hugo, Victor on education
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"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it."

Hugo, Victor on debt   

"The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."

Douglas, William O. on government
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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"We have no commission from God to police the world."

Harrison, Benjamin on diplomacy
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"Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice doggie! till you can find a rock."

Catlin, Wynn on diplomacy
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"If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government."

Caccia, Lord Harold on diplomacy   

"God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool."

Hugo, Victor on flirting
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"Liberation is not deliverance."

Hugo, Victor on freedom   

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"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."

Hugo, Victor on irony   

"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

Updike, John on rain
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"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."

Updike, John on government
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"A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity."

Carter, Jimmy on nations
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"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."

Brebner, J. Bartlett on nations
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"Nations, like men, have their infancy."

Bolingbroke, Henry on nations   

"A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself."

Miller, Arthur on newspapers