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🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson

Politics

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

"A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice."

"Celebrating Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda – Democracy Now! interviews Martin Espada, poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."

"Every revolutionary party finds its chief support in the younger generation of the rising class. Political decay expresses itself in a loss of ability to attract youth."

"I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans — in grief, as in defiance."

"It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave."

"Subito salse in me due cose: paura e desiderio: paura per la minacciante e scura spelonca, desiderio per vedere se là entro fusse alcuna miracolosa cosa. (Ancient Italian)"

"Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."

"My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm not running for president."

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🇨🇭Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Law

b. 1947

"We don’t want a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots. We don’t want an international order akin to post-democracy or post-law."

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🇺🇸Nathaniel Hawthorne

Literature

Romanticism

1804–1864

"Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day."

"One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful."

"Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self."

"All sorts of excuses were being given why we should uphold rearmament, including the old-fashioned "For God, King and Country" patriotism, assisted by all the tomfoolery of jubilees and coronations."

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🇺🇸John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics

Keynesian economics

1908–2006

"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects."

"'Body of Copernicus' identified – BBC article including image of Copernicus using facial reconstruction based on located skull"

"After all, in our region there's been a wound for years on the body of the Muslim world under the shadow of the occupation of the holy land of Palestine and the beloved al-Quds ."

"The most important job we have is not congressman or senator or governor. It's family and mother and husband and wife."

"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."

"Your national representatives...want to invade and intervene in Venezuela – they say... in the name of democracy and freedom. But it’s not like that... is as false as the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq..."

"I think there's a Trojan horse lurking in the weeds, ready to pull a fast one on the American people, and I simply am not going to let that happen."

"I am against this Treaty not because I am a man of war but because I am a man of peace. I am against this Treaty because it will not end the centuries of conflict between the two nations of Great Britain and Ireland."

"Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter."

"Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century."

"In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness."

"Neither Germany nor Italy have doubts. Our crisis is not a material crisis. We have lost faith in our destiny...We are like mariners without a pilot."

"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not."

"Do not evaluate a leader based on his or her academic qualifications because politics cannot be fully taught or learnt in school."

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🇺🇸William Howard Taft

Politics

1915–2011

"The welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."

"The United States has the luxury of being very far from the front. Unfortunately, information war isn’t geographical — so, America, welcome to the war."

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