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quotes.push("The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life - the sick, the needy, the handicapped. - Hubert Humphrey");

quotes.push("A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. - German proverb");

quotes.push("Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty - Thomas Jefferson");

quotes.push("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.");

quotes.push("We are all adrift in the same boat - and there's no way half the boat is going to sink. - Raul Estrada-Oyuela");

quotes.push("It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese proverb");

quotes.push("To protect those who are not able to protect themselves is a duty which every one owes to society. - Edward Macnaghten");

quotes.push("The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke");

quotes.push("God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones. - Publilius Syrus");

quotes.push("Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. - Marcus Aurelius");

quotes.push("Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln");

quotes.push("Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. -  Welsh proverb");

quotes.push("You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. - Oliver Goldsmith");

quotes.push("If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison");

quotes.push("The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. - A.E. Housman");

quotes.push("The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.  - Jean Giraudoux");

quotes.push("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke");

quotes.push("This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. - Theodore Roosevelt");

quotes.push("Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr");

quotes.push("It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice. - Thomas Jefferson");

quotes.push("To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. - Confucius");

quotes.push("Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway. - John Wayne");

quotes.push("It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -  Antoine de Saint-Exupery");

quotes.push("Conscience is God's presence in man. - Emmanuel Swedenborg");

quotes.push("Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw");

quotes.push("Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist. - Hindu proverb");

quotes.push("What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. - Barbara Jordan");

quotes.push("The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves; wiser people are full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell");

quotes.push("Always do right.  This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain");

quotes.push("Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.");

quotes.push("A politician is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. - James Freeman Clarke");

quotes.push("Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.");

quotes.push("That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. - James Kern Feibleman");

quotes.push("Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Laurens van der Post");

quotes.push("Truth never damages a cause that is just. - Mohandas K. Gandhi");

quotes.push("Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King, Jr.");

quotes.push("Mediocrities, entrusted with power over their fellow-creatures, invariably develop into tyrants.  All history proves it. - Frederick Baron Corvo");

quotes.push("Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P. J. O'Rourke");

quotes.push("The American flag doesn't mean anything if you don't put any faith in it.");

quotes.push("When people who are honestly mistaken learn the truth, they will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest. -  Anonymous");

quotes.push("He who would be a leader must be a bridge. - Welsh proverb");

quotes.push("It is the very nature of a democracy that it not only does, but should, fight with one hand tied behind its back.  It is also in the nature of democracy that it prevails against its enemies precisely because it does. - Michael Ignatieff");

quotes.push("I have yet to learn how to segregate my moral concerns. It seems to me if I abhor intolerance, discrimination and hatred when they affect people who look like me, I must also abhor them when they affect people who do not. - Leonard Pitts Jr.");

quotes.push("We do not act rightly because we have virtue, we have virtue because we act rightly.");

quotes.push("Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr.");

quotes.push("Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr.");

quotes.push("The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian.  He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. - Edward Gibbon");

quotes.push("Immoral means cannot bring moral ends, for the ends are pre-existent in the means. - Martin Luther King, Jr.");

quotes.push("If we abandon our ideals in the face of adversity and aggression, then those ideals were never really in our possession. - Captain Ian Fishback");

quotes.push("We must live together as brothers, or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr.");

quotes.push("The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. - Edward Dowling");

quotes.push("In 1929 the wise, far-seeing electors of my native Hereford sent me to Westminster and, two years later, the lousy bastards kicked me out. - Frank Owen");

quotes.push("The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.  - Hubert Humphrey");

quotes.push("We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.  For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F. Kennedy");

quotes.push("Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. - Meg Greenfield");

quotes.push("When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS. - Gandhi");

quotes.push("The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. - Robert M. Hutchins");

quotes.push("Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi");

quotes.push("There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. - Cyrus Curtis");

quotes.push("Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. - Henry Steele Commager");

quotes.push("The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. - Stanley Milgram");

quotes.push("Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson");

quotes.push("Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity - A. W. Tozer");

quotes.push("Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? - James Madison");

quotes.push("We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. - James Russell Lowell");

quotes.push("Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. - Oliver Wendell Holmes");

quotes.push("Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein");

quotes.push("One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. - Chinese proverb");

quotes.push("Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain");

quotes.push("All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out. - I.F. Stone");

quotes.push("Not everyone understands the fine points of democracy, but everyone, everywhere, understands hypocrisy. - Jack Clooney, retired FBI counter-terrorism expert");

quotes.push("The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Justice Louis Brandeis");

quotes.push("The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. - Thomas Jefferson");

quotes.push("We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. - Eric Hoffer");

quotes.push("Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.");

quotes.push("Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. - Susan B. Anthony");

quotes.push("He that refuseth to buy counsel cheap, shall buy repentance dear. - Sir Richard Whittington");

quotes.push("The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer");

quotes.push("History reveals that the beauty and wonder of the God of creation is regularly shrunk by small-minded human beings to the limits of their vision and the boundaries of their land.");

quotes.push("For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people. The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. - Naomi Klein");

quotes.push("Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Sir Winston Churchill");

quotes.push("The worst patriots are those who hold certainty dearer than truth, who, in order to spare themselves the pain of thought, are willing to inflict untold sufferings on others. - William Sloane Coffin");

quotes.push("If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin  - Samuel Adams");

quotes.push("Life is one weird tub of guacamole and I am all out of chips - Mark Morford");

quotes.push("A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. - Mark Twain");

quotes.push("To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have. - Theodore H. White");

quotes.push("The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future. - Abigail Scott Dunaway");

quotes.push("Shortsighted men ... in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things. - Theodore Roosevelt");

quotes.push("Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?  -  Matthew 7:3");

quotes.push("It is not that they lie. It is, rather, that they have such a high regard for the truth they use it sparingly.");

quotes.push("The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.");

quotes.push("Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.  - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.");

quotes.push("I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo");

quotes.push("True strength restrains itself -- true greatness sets its own limits. - Talleyrand");

quotes.push("When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag carrying the Cross -  Sinclair Lewis");

quotes.push("Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.  We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. - General Omar Bradley");

quotes.push("Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Elder");

quotes.push("Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arnold Schopenhauer");

quotes.push("How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver");

quotes.push("No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive. - Ralph Waldo Emerson");

quotes.push("Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. - Ralph Waldo Emerson");

quotes.push("I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. - Thomas Jefferson");

quotes.push("Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein");

quotes.push("Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. - Margaret Chase Smith");

quotes.push("Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide");

quotes.push("All ... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson");

quotes.push("How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. - Abraham Lincoln");

quotes.push("Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein");

quotes.push("Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan");

quotes.push("Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route. - Elizabeth Kenny");

quotes.push("Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. - Henri Frederic Amiel");

quotes.push("The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. - Eleanor Holmes Norton");

quotes.push("But this is the great danger America faces - that we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual; each seeking to satisfy private wants. If that happens, who then will speak for America? Who then will speak for the common good? - Barbara Jordan");

quotes.push("In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. - J. William Fulbright");

quotes.push("The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. - Molly Ivins");

quotes.push("I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education. - Thomas Jefferson");

quotes.push("So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. - Voltaire");

quotes.push("America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. - William J. Bennett");

quotes.push("You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. - Dwight D. Eisenhower");

quotes.push("He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. - James Russell Lowell");

quotes.push("How a minority,<br />Reaching majority,<br />Seizing authority,<br />Hates a minority! - Leonard H. Robbins");

quotes.push("We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. - Harold Nicolson");

quotes.push("There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging 10 times in his life. - Michel de Montaigne");

quotes.push("Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. - Carl Schurz");

quotes.push("There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. - John Kenneth Galbraith");

quotes.push("It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. - Marian Wright Edelman");

quotes.push("The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. - Michelangelo");

quotes.push("What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility ... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai Stevenson");

quotes.push("The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: 'Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.' - Carl Schurz");

quotes.push("We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. - Edward R. Murrow");

quotes.push("The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is na&#239;ve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. - H. L. Mencken");

quotes.push("I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. - James Baldwin");

quotes.push("Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! - Patrick Henry");

quotes.push("To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt");

quotes.push("There are two visions of America. One...is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity, hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy ... The other vision...loves freedom, encourages diversity, embraces science and affirms the dignity and rights of every individual. It sees America as a moral nation, neither completely religious nor completely secular. It defines patriotism as love of country and of the people who make it strong. It defends all citizens against unjust coercion and irrational conformity ... It is the vision of a free society. We must be bold enough to proclaim it and strong enough to defend it against all its enemies. -  Rabbi Sherwin Wine");

quotes.push("There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. - Mohandas K. Gandhi");

quotes.push("We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. - Thomas Fuller");

quotes.push("I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. - Elwyn Brooks White");

quotes.push("The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. - Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac");

quotes.push("Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. - Pliny the Elder");

quotes.push("Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? - Pierre Troubetzoy");

quotes.push("Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. - Chief Seattle");

quotes.push("When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. - John Muir");

quotes.push("You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau");

quotes.push("The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. - Carl Sagan");

quotes.push("Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money. - Cree Indian proverb");

quotes.push("American ingenuity and insight originate not on the balance sheet but in the laboratory, not in the boardroom but in the field of play, not on the spreadsheet but in the streets where human beings live and work. - skimble");

quotes.push("We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. - Barbara Ward");

quotes.push("It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. - Thomas Paine");

quotes.push("He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - Thomas Paine");

quotes.push("If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. -  Samuel Adams");

quotes.push("A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. - Thomas Paine");

quotes.push("All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. - George Santayana");

quotes.push("Common sense is the least common of the senses. - Winston Churchill");

quotes.push("We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. - Miguel de Unamuno");

quotes.push("Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men. - Samuel Johnson");

quotes.push("There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else. - General Peyton C. March");

quotes.push("Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. - Alvin Toffler");

quotes.push("Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. - Dwight D. Eisenhower");

quotes.push("The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum. - Charles Caleb Colton");

quotes.push("Well done is better than well said - Benjamin Franklin");

quotes.push("In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.");

quotes.push("Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear -  Bertrand Russell");

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