There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
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Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.
Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race.
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...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
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We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
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It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
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The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
