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- I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Circle, 1921
- We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- People often say that this person is or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973
- Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty, 1859
- Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
- Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)
- During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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