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......"Who wants to hear about braves deeds when he’s ashamed of his own, and who likes an open, honest tale from someone he’s deceiving?" Richard Adams, author of Watership Down
......"Each says something about the nature of the world, and, though individually he adds little or nothing to our understanding of it, still from the combination of all something considerable is accomplished." Aristotle (from Metaphysics)
......"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." Dante
......"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master." Demosthenes
......"Beware what you set your heart upon,
For surely it shall be yours." Ralph Waldo Emerson
......"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" Gandhi
......"We are called to meet the challenge of…the primitive doctrine that Might is Right…with God’s help we shall prevail." King George VI (speaking on the invasion of Poland)
......"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln
......"Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts and made us all seekers after that which we can never fully find, forbid us to be satisfied with what we can make of life. Draw us from the base content and set our eyes on far-off goals. Keep us at task too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength. Deliver us from fretfulness and self-pitying; make us sure of the good we cannot see and of the hidden good in the world. Open our eyes to simple beauty all around us and our hearts to the loveliness men hide from us because we do not try to understand them. Save us from ourselves and show us a vision of a world made new." Eleanor Roosevelt's nightly prayer
......"I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation." Carl Sagan
......"But it is just at this point, when things look darkest for the Democrats, that you can count on the Republicans to do something that will save the day--that is, it will save the day for us. You can always count on the Republicans... to remind the people of what the Republican Party really stands for." Harry S. Truman
......"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Mark Twain
......"Inconsistencies of opinion arising from changes of circumstances are often justifiable. But there is one sort of inconsistency that is culpable: it is the inconsistency between a man’s conviction and his vote, between his conscience and his conduct. No man shall ever charge me with an inconsistency of that kind." Daniel Webster
......"I had grown up with Republicans and gone to school and college with them, and sickened by their selfishness, their cold avarice and lofty contempt for the common people, had early sworn to vote for the Democrats, who, for all their rotten political faults, were more concerned with the welfare of the country as a whole." David Kenyon Webster
......"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees." Alexander Wiley (quoting a Russian observer in 1947)
......"Democracy satisfies best the human thirst for freedom; yet, being undisciplined, turbulent, and luxury-seeking, it falls time and again to austere single-minded despotism." Herman Wouk, author of War and Remembrance
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