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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), 'Jugurthine War,' 41 B.C.
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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Count Diodati, 1807
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Journals,' 1836
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), 'Politics Getting Ready to Jell,' The Illiterate Digest, 1924
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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), ''Jam-Tomorrow' Progressives,' New Republic, December 15, 1937
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
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Results of search for Quote: TE - Page 177 of 795 Showing results 1761 to 1770 of 7949 total quotations found.