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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

— Dwight Eisenhower

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All cruelty springs from weakness.

— Seneca the Younger

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The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

— Mark Twain

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If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.

— Stephen Hawking

Eisenhower

Hawking

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Despair is anger with nowhere to go.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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Is there a religion today that would not benefit from calling home its missionaries and setting them to work among its hypocrites?

— Robert Brault

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A skeptic doubts the best authority; an enthusiast is likely to accept the poorest.

— James Lendall Basford

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All the Negro asks is that the door which rewards industry, thrift, intelligence, and character be left as wide open to him as for the foreigner who constantly comes to our country. More than this he has no right to request. Less than this a republic has no right to withhold.

— Booker T. Washington

McLaughlin

Washington

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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking, or economizing.

— John Stuart Mill

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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

— Stephen Covey

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The moral crisis of our age has nothing to do with gay marriage or abortion; it is insider trading, obscene CEO pay, wage theft from ordinary workers, Wall Street’s continued gambling addiction, corporate payoffs to friendly politicians, and the billionaire takeover of our democracy.

— Robert Reich

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I am fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

— George McGovern

Mill

McGovern

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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

— Thomas Sowell

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To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

— Voltaire

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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.

— Ulysses S. Grant

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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

— Denis Diderot

Sowell

Diderot

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We have come to live in a society based on insults, on lies, and on things that just aren’t true. It creates an environment where deranged people feel empowered.

— Colin Powell

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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him and let him know you trust him.

— Booker T. Washington

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Every war, when it comes or before it comes, is represented not as a war, but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

— George Orwell

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Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain.

— Henry Ford

Powell

Ford

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Being open to data, facts, and science doesn’t make you liberal, it makes you literate. It means you favor data, facts, and evidence over conspiracy theories, manufactured misinformation, and cherry-picked industry spins.

— Former Senator Paul H. Douglas (D-IL)

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience; this is the ideal life.

— Mark Twain

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Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

— George Berkeley

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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser then when it reached only to the end of the bar.

— Edward R. Murrow

Douglas

Murrow

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