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- Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
- Francis Jeffrey (1773 - 1850)
- A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
- John Tillotson (1630 - 1694)
- 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)
- Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
- John Calhoun (1782 - 1850)
- There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
- Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
- Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
- Hosea Ballou (1796 - 1861)
- The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.
- John Dalberg
- Study the past if you would define the future.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
- Quida
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