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- Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
- The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract, 1762
- Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
- A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations, 200 A.D.
- Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
- It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946
- I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936
- A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944
- 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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