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- The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
- 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
- Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784), Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,' 1796
- Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), speech, June 11, 1928
- 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
- Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
- 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.
- 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
- No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 'The Strenuous Life,' 1900
- To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684), 'The Cid,' 1636
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