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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
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Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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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.
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John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty,chapter 3, 1859
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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
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Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), Address to Radio-Television Executives Society, New York City, September 14, 1955
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We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Radio broadcast, London, March 21, 1943
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The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Temper of Our Time, 1967
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change
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Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
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Dean William R. Inge
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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