Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
-- Mark Twai...
If you are good for nothing else you can stil serve as a bad example -- Peter l. Berge
A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
-- Henry David Thoreau,_On the Duty of Civil Disobedience_...
Courage is the price that love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earha
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is the difference of opinion that makes horseraces.
-- Mark Twain,_Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar_, 1894...
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress.
.Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take aw...
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
-- John E E Dalberg, Lord Acton (1834-1902), _The History of Freedom in Antiqu...
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
-- Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), US Supreme Court Chief Justice, Opinion, June 17, 1925...
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner. -- Nelson Mandela (in _The Long Walk to Freedom_)...
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. -- Richard Byrd

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