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- Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
- Hermocrates of Syracuse
- I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
- MacKenzie King
- Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
- Benjamin Cardozo (1870 - 1938)
- The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. - George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3
- It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
- Sir Arthur Helps
- In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
- Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
- See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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