"Memories of Rufus Choate by Joseph Neilson, published 1884."

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“The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.”

“Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.”

“There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.”

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"How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Philosophy1767–1835

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"Some of the parents of beaten up girls personally called me and thanked for saving their daughters as none of them till then knew about their kids’ habits."

— Pramod Muthalik

Politics1963

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"History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children or as the lying prime minister and president."

— Mahathir bin Mohamad

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"You think that you exist because you’re unhappy. Other people exist merely as a function of their problems and spend all their time talking compulsively about their children, their wives and husbands,…"

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Science1947–1985

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