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- 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)
- Very much of the literature of economics strikes me as rationalization after the event.
- John H. Williams
- Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.
- Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
- If you feel that you have boy feet planted on the ground, then the university has failed you.
- Robert Goheen
- Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism and doubt.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), On Holland, Generally Speaking, 1928
- 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
- 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
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