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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#affairs #among #conduct #does #free

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#good #hundred #million #two

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

#anguish #arises #bitterness #enchantment #flowers

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#ascendant #general #mankind #mediocrity #power

Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men. ↗

— Herbert Baxter Adams

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There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S. ↗

— James K. Polk

#any #became #before #conception #congress

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

Virtue can only flourish among equals. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#among #equals #flourish #only #virtue

There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will look out for the age at which, had you your wish, your species had stopped. Uneasy at your present condition for reasons which threaten your unhappy posterity with still greater uneasiness, you will perhaps wish it were in your power to go back; and this sentiment ought to be considered, as the panegyric of your first parents, the condemnation of you contemporaries, and a source of terror to all those who may have the misfortune of succeeding you. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#age

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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