The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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John Steinbeck
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
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George Deacon
I have brought peace to this land, and security, " he began." And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single...
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Iain Pears
Use truth to fight the lies. Use the heart to fight the mind.
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Suzy Kassem
A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS...
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Rudyard Kipling
More Quotes By Adolf Hitler
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
If you win, you need not have to explain... If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine - fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle is less defensive than...
It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific...
