There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
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All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
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All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
