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- A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), "The Rights of Man", 1792
- What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
- How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! - Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), "Cato", Act 4, Scene 4, 1713
- When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1824
- You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Misalliance"
- No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
- He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
- Dr. Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677), quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866-1916 by Rev. W. Odom
- What we’re saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.
- Eldridge Cleaver (1935 - ), Speech in San Francisco, 1968
- The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), "The True Believer", 1951
- All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse V
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