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[Quote No.40253] Need Area: Friends > General
"If we can implant in our people the...virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free." - Winthrop Williams Aldrich
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[Quote No.40255] Need Area: Friends > General
"Reputation is what the world thinks a man or woman is; character is what he or she really is.
" - Anonymous
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[Quote No.40256] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Voters, politicians and bureaucrats should remember this:] When small men begin to cast long shadows, it is a sure sign that the sun is setting." - Anonymous
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[Quote No.40261] Need Area: Friends > General
"A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character..." - Roger Ward Babson
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[Quote No.40266] Need Area: Friends > General
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." - Jackson Browne
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[Quote No.40267] Need Area: Friends > General
"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted." - Andrew Carnegie
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[Quote No.40268] Need Area: Friends > General
"A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people." - Henry Clay
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[Quote No.40269] Need Area: Friends > General
"Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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[Quote No.40273] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you would not be known to do anything, never do it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.40276] Need Area: Friends > General
"Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others may say or think." - John Galsworthy
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[Quote No.40279] Need Area: Friends > General
"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community." - Ed Howe
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[Quote No.40283] Need Area: Friends > General
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." - Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
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[Quote No.40288] Need Area: Friends > General
"Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note [in that they are unknown to all but their closest friends] do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows." - Charles Reade
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[Quote No.40290] Need Area: Friends > General
"The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence." - Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
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[Quote No.40293] Need Area: Friends > General
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." - Will Rogers
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[Quote No.40294] Need Area: Friends > General
"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike." - Theodore Roosevelt
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[Quote No.40297] Need Area: Friends > General
"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden
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[Quote No.40299] Need Area: Friends > General
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." - John D. Rockefeller
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[Quote No.40302] Need Area: Friends > General
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand." - Baruch Spinoza
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[Quote No.40305] Need Area: Friends > General
"...never be swayed by unworthy motives..." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[Quote No.40308] Need Area: Friends > General
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." - Malcolm X
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[Quote No.40325] Need Area: Friends > General
"You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb. [Handouts won't help. But if he wants to improve his situation and is willing to work hard, then a hand up will help him and society.] " - Andrew Carnegie
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[Quote No.40326] Need Area: Friends > General
"When government accepts responsibility for people [for example in socialist, communist and other big, paternal, statist political philosophies], then people no longer take responsibility for themselves [or grow in skills, empowerment and justified self-esteem as much as they would otherwise to the detriment of the whole society in the future]." - George Pataki
American Republican politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York.
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[Quote No.40330] Need Area: Friends > General
"[As much freedom as is possible, that doesn't hurt other's equal right to the same degree of freedom, is vital to human happiness because...] A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." - Carl Gustav Jung
(1875-1961), famous psychiatrist. Quote from his book, 'Modern Man in Search of a Soul', published 1933.
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[Quote No.40335] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Government, especially when too powerful, begins to serve its own interests rather than those of its citizens. It becomes about self-service rather than public service. It loses its justification for existing as it loses its moral principles and values making it a force for evil rather than for good. The following quote is an example of this attitude:] Justice is incedental to law and order." - J. Edgar Hoover
FBI director
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[Quote No.40336] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all." - Antonin Scalia
U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: Arizona v. Hicks, 3 March 1987.
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[Quote No.40337] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Governments have a history of trying to rewrite history to make themselves look better and their enemies look worse. But intelligent people realise that this makes them look even more evil, especially to those that know the truth which increases with time, and therefore follow the following advice:] Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General. Source: Speech, Dartmouth College, 14 June 1953.
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[Quote No.40338] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Beware government propaganda - political fraud:] ...in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." - Adolf Hitler
Source: Adolf Hitler's book, 'Mein Kampf' [My Struggle], vol. I, ch. X.
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[Quote No.40339] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Beware this method of the propaganda of governments and other power elites:] A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality." - Solon
(c.638 BC-558 BC) Athenian statesman, lawmaker, Lyric poet, renowned as a founding father of the Athenian polis, one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Quoted 550 B.C.
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[Quote No.40342] Need Area: Friends > General
"To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served." - Milton Friedman
(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist and economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Source: Introduction, 'Capitalism and Freedom' (1962).
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[Quote No.40344] Need Area: Friends > General
"The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in 'On Liberty'. The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual [who is not harming anyone else] for that individual's own good. [For example:] The case for prohibiting drugs is exactly as strong and as weak as the case for prohibiting people from overeating. We all know that overeating causes more deaths than drugs do. If it's in principle OK for the government to say you must not consume drugs because they'll do you harm, why isn't it all right to say you must not eat too much because you'll do harm? Why isn't it all right to say you must not try to go in for skydiving because you're likely to die? Why isn't it all right to say, 'Oh, skiing, that's no good, that's a very dangerous sport, you'll hurt yourself"? Where do you draw the line?' " - Milton Friedman
(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist and economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Source: America's Drug Forum interview (1991).
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[Quote No.40345] Need Area: Friends > General
"One of the great mistakes is to judge [government] policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. [As often the very best intentioned but poorly thought out policies have unintended consequences worse than the problem they were trying to solve.]" - Milton Friedman
(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist and economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Source: Interview with Richard Heffner on 'The Open Mind', (7 December 1975).
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[Quote No.40347] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians spending other people's money have learned...] How much easier is it to be generous than just." - Junius
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[Quote No.40348] Need Area: Friends > General
"Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests." - Rolf Hochhuth
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[Quote No.40349] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Remember this when listening to any politician, bureaucrat or other power elite:] When a fox preaches, take care of your geese." - Proverb
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[Quote No.40353] Need Area: Friends > General
"A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right." - Lyndon B. Johnson
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[Quote No.40355] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Voters should...] Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame." - Marcus T. Cicero
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[Quote No.40358] Need Area: Friends > General
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher [moral] standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself." - Henry Ward Beecher
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[Quote No.40381] Need Area: Friends > General
"We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826)
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[Quote No.40382] Need Area: Friends > General
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826)
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[Quote No.40384] Need Area: Friends > General
"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826)
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[Quote No.40386] Need Area: Friends > General
"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship." - James Russell Lowell
(1819 - 1891)
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[Quote No.40387] Need Area: Friends > General
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." - Abraham Lincoln
(1809 - 1865), lawyer and US President.
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[Quote No.40388] Need Area: Friends > General
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece. [In law a compromise or settlement is considered acceptable if both are disappointed and unhappy, but neither is significantly more unhappy than the other.]" - Paul Gauguin
(1848 - 1904)
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[Quote No.40400] Need Area: Friends > General
"War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule. And we in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes." - Ernest Hemingway
'Notes on the Next War', 1935.
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[Quote No.40401] Need Area: Friends > General
"If the welfarist-socialist-inflationist trend of recent years continues in this country, the outlook is dark. It is a prospect of mounting taxation, snowballing expenditures, chronic deficits, a budget out of control, an accelerating rate of inflation of the kind endemic in Latin America (at least for the last generation), a collapse of the dollar, increasing world currency chaos, and more and more ruthless price, wage, and exchange controls, leading toward a regimented economy and dictatorship. And if this trend is interrupted temporarily, it may be by riots, assassinations, and a breakdown of law and order." - Henry Hazlitt
(1894 – 1993), American economist, philosopher, literary critic and journalist.
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[Quote No.40402] Need Area: Friends > General
"Man's freedom opens up to him an opportunity to become that which he can authentically be." - Karl Jaspers
'Way to Wisdom', 1951.
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[Quote No.40406] Need Area: Friends > General
"What our generation has forgotten [in the increasing call for bigger government and socialist policies where the government has ever more of the public's wealth, property and power] is that the system of private [rather than public] property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. If all the means of production were vested in a single hand, whether it be nominally that of 'society' as a whole or that of a dictator, whoever exercises this control has complete power [for good or bad] over us." - Friedrich A. Hayek
Famous economist who won Nobel Prize for economics in 1974. Quote from his book, 'The Road to Serfdom', 1944.
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[Quote No.40446] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." - Thomas Szasz
(1920 - ), psychiatrist, academic and past winner of the American Humanist Association's Humanist of the Year award. Since 1990 he has been Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York.
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[Quote No.40451] Need Area: Friends > General
"A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world!" - Thomas Szasz
(1920 - ), psychiatrist, academic and past winner of the American Humanist Association's Humanist of the Year award. Since 1990 he has been Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York.
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