philosopher Quotes
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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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God is at home. We are in the far country.
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I ask you all so earnestly to open girl’s schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.
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Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries – all living sentient creatures.
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Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.