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Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I read more
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated read more
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under read more
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you read more
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise
No nation has friends only interests
No nation has friends only interests
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others read more
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right
