Alexander Hamilton:
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?

Mohandas Gandhi quotes

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Be the change that you want to see in the world.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I refuse to live in other people's houses as an interloper, a beggar or a slave.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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