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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to read more
The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to them as much as to the people of the state where the lands are located.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody read more
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real read more
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that makes progress possible, lies in unification. For where unification has been able to establish unity of ideas it has usually ended in uniformity, paralysing the growth of new ideas. And where the unification has merely brought about an artificial or imposed unity, its irksomeness has led through discord to disruption.Vitality springs from diversity- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces- alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.
Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the read more
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in read more
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.