Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
Society itself is an accident ...
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.