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What is the strongest cure? -- Victory.
Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher |
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Justice? You get justice in the next world; in this world you have the law.
William Gaddis, novelist |
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
architect, individualist |
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain |
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammed Ali |
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Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Theodore Roosevelt |
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi |
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The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
Cicero (106 B.C. - 43 B.C.) |
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Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger.
Thrasymachus, 5th century B.C., Greek philosopher |
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I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
Thomas Jefferson |
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I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.
Sen. Russell Long of Louisiana |
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Darrow, attorney |
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Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leader … All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism.
Herman Goering, Nazi, at the Nuremburg trials |
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin |
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern...Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton, historian
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The sword of justice has no scabbard.
Joseph de Maistre, French philosopher (1753-1821) |
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It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny |
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke,
British statesman (1729-1797)
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Never bring a knife to a gunfight.
Unattributable |
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There never has been, there never can be, successful compromise between good and evil.
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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No man is above the law, and no man is below it. Nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt |
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Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens |
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill |
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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Erik Hoffer, author |
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I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."
William Lloyd Garrison
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And do as adversaries do in law; strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."
William Shakespeare |
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
Bobby Unser
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The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
Alex Carey, Australian social scientist |
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