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- The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explination.
- Hilton Kramer, The New York Times art critic, in the late 1960
- What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Welcoming address before the Democratic national convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
- I do think imperfection's underrated.
- Helena Bonham Carter
- It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine
- 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
- The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852), Remarks in the Senate, march 12, 1838
- The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty, 1859
- We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 4, September 11, 1777
- There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Congressional Record, April 15, 1942
- But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty,chapter 3, 1859
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