"Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift
Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.
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“Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.”
“There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.”
“No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.”
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“I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.”
“The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.”
“in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.”
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“A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.”
“Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.”
“If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.”