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I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, 1867
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.: Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), Old Newsman Writes, Esquire, December 1934
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), An Apology for Idlers, 1874
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The administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.: Ralph Nader (1934 - ), News conference, October 3, 1972, speaking about the Nixon Administration
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.: Whitney Griswold, Address to students at Phillips Academy, 1952
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I can imagine no greater disservice to the county than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Letter to Arthur Brisbane, April 25, 1917
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), Day of Affirmation address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.: Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995), Speech to the Consultive Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, January 23, 1967
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.: Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
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