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- I never dared to be radical when young,
For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), Precaution, 1936
- I never dared to be radical when young,
For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), Precaution, 1936
- I never dared to be radical when young,
For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), Precaution, 1936
- I never dared to be radical when young,
For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), Precaution, 1936
- There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.
- George Bird Grinnell
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975), The New Yorker, September 12, 1970
- We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Major Barbara, 1907
- The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
- Anyone who had ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987), Fifth Avenue Uptown: A Letter from
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