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There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. Howard Zinn
People Innocent Enough Innocent People Shame Cover Flag Large
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. Thucydides
Vision Before Meet Danger Alike Those Out Clearest Surely Glory Go Bravest Them Notwithstanding Who
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant
Good Speak Clever Nothing Others Way Say Ourselves Good Thing Always Praising Often Dishonest Ill Thing
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard
God History You Dark Power First Stars Flower Enough Destroy Mad Would See Slowly Small Exceedingly Make Bee Gods Grind Sentences Lessons Whom Four Mills
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. James Anthony Froude
Death Man Animals Wild Wild Animals Torture Only Never Fellow Sport Fellow Creatures His Itself Whom Creatures Amusing
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Alexis de Tocqueville
Own States Relieved Supply Individuals Thus Majority Opinions Ready-Made Forming Use Who Multitude United United States Necessity
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. John Keegan
Veterans Day Loyalty Courage Duty Others Soldiers Compromise Unrelenting Absolute Until Devotion Go Been Task Committed Done Standards Letting
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. Tacitus
Day Fight Battle Will Runs Rise Never He Another Another Day May Again Turn Fights Slain Away
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. Will Durant
Time You Fool People Be True Country Enough Rule True May Them Large
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. Alexis de Tocqueville
Political Later States Sooner Sooner Or Later Does Judicial Question Which Turn United United States Hardly
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. Will Durant
Political Minority Machine Triumphs Divided Majority Because Against Acting United
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. Carter G. Woodson
Strong Will Become Enough Ghetto Out Must Fed Never Pushes He Him Hand Get Eternally
Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate. Norman Davies
Life Death Good Balance Celebrate Defined Pleasures Bad Life And Death Horrors Between Were Any Then Good And Bad Serenity Things
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? Alexis de Tocqueville
Character World Money Will Value Single National Everything Only Sees Sought Answer How How Much How Much Money National Character Question American Much Deeper Bring
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. Alexis de Tocqueville
Freedom Mind Independence Country No Country Know Real Real Freedom Discussion America Which Little
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. Carter G. Woodson
Change Struggle Black Hopeless Face Worst Student Well Him Sort Another Said His Condition Handicap Curse Teaching
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. Sallust
Great Small Things Great Things Harmony Small Makes Decay Lack Grow Things
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. Alexis de Tocqueville
Government Vote Obligation Pay Those Only Democratic Escape Tax Which Who
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. Will Durant
Liberty Dictatorship License Becomes Near
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. Arnold J. Toynbee
History State Nineteen States Collapsed Moral Civilizations Reached Them Appeared Now Twenty-Two United United States
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. Edward Gibbon
Respect Mistake People No Respect Arguing Never Make Opinions Whose
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone. Jill Lepore
Good News Everyone Bad Bad News Public Public Good
There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal. Michel Foucault
Oppression Become Invisible New Normal Domination Which Forms
For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities. Robert Dallek
Gun Gun Control Fears Long Country Control Our Appropriate Ways Those Easily Out Find Weapons Remains Troubled Armed Most Cry Camp Cannot Which Available Us Communities Who Among Eliminated
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. Alexis de Tocqueville
Health Quality Society Citizens Performed Democratic Democratic Society Private May Measured Functions
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. Alexis de Tocqueville
Great Democracy Class Men Important Rich Way Remain Most Exist Hands Same Form Should Fortunes
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