There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
-Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal (1902-2003)
...free man?
A hungry man is not a free man.
-Adlai Stevenson II, lawyer, politician, and diplomat (1900-1965)
Sum of small efforts
"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." ~ Robert Collier |
...the narrow prejudices
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
-Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)
-Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)
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