"Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies."
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"Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over."
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"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
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"The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given."
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"In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people."
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"To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves."
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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
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"But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about."
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"What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions."
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"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire."
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"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
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"All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity."
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"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear."
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"Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral."
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"I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up."
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"The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it"
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"No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount."
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"The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption."
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"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
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"There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future."
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