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- Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers.
- US Supreme Court
- Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
- The Talmud
- When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
- Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
- Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
- Francis Jeffrey (1773 - 1850)
- The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
- Diogenes Laertius
- All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
- Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
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