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To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our read more
To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our own level, or below it, is, I think, the distinct notion of envy.
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
Individuality is freedom lived.
Individuality is freedom lived.
I have not yet begun to fight!
I have not yet begun to fight!
It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or read more
It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after.
...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of read more
...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith in the future renders us receptive to change.
Glory is the child of peril.
Glory is the child of peril.
When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in read more
When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
