"My political ideal is democracy. Let every..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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“Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.”
“If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.”
“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”
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“In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.”
“I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.”
“We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.”
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“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
“I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.”
“In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.”