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Political Quotations – Set 9

Aug 10, 2009

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. – Bertrand Russell, English mathematician-philosopher (1872-1970)
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (1792-1822)

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. – John Donne, poet (1573-1631)
Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! – Philander Chase Johnson, American author (1866-1939)
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward – your destiny – are here and now. – Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary-General (1905-1961)

Jun 14, 2009

People who never get carried away should be. – Malcolm S. Forbes, American publisher (1919-1990)
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life. – Eugene O’Neill, American playwright (1888-1953)
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak. – Michel De Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. – Thomas Mann, German author (1875-1955)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)