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- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Archibald Stuart, December 23, 1791
- If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Benjamin Waring and others, March 23, 1801
- Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address to the United States Senate, January 22, 1917
- No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903), Social Statics, part 4, chapter 30 1851
- Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Black Cat, 1843
- The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conservative, Boston, Massachusetts, December 9, 1841
- He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), Writing of John Tyler, Thomas Hart Benton, chapter 11, 1897
- Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Address recorded for the Republican Lincoln Day dinners, January 28, 1964
- The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
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