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- Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A republican government is slow to move, yet once in motion it's momentum becomes irresistible.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that he nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- If you feel that you have boy feet planted on the ground, then the university has failed you.
- Robert Goheen
- The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- I asked tom if countries always apologize when they had done wrong, and he says, 'Yes, the little one does.'
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894
- Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech, San Francisco, May 13, 1903
- No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Speech to Boston World Affaires Council
- The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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