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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
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, p. 24
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We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.: William O. Douglas (1898 - 1980), Dissenting, Osborn V. Unites States
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is as shallow as time.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Essay on Sir Walter Scott, 1881
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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.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Temper of Our Time, 1967
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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.: John Randolph (1773 - 1833)
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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
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Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Great Place, 1625
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