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princes ought to leave affairs of reproach to the management of others, and keep those of grace in their own hands

the nature of the people is variable, and whilst it is easy to persuade them, it is difficult to fix them in that persuasion

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

All sincere and earnest search after truth, even where it fails to reach it, yet, often comes so near to it, that other minds more happily situated may be led, by pointing out its very limitations and errors, to obtain a larger view.

For equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman, it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense.

Free trade in labour and equality of training, intellectual or physical, is essential if the organic aptitudes of a sex or class are to be determined.

Give us labour and the training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone, but for the race.

In love there is no first nor last!

That even one individual in a society should be debarred from undertaking that form of social toil for which it is most fitted, makes an unnecessary deficit in the general social assets.

The past material conditions of life have gone for ever; no will of man can recall them.

The ultimate effect of parasitism is always a paralysis of the will and an inability to compel oneself into any course of action for the moment unpleasurable and exhaustive.

We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less.

We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.

the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market

The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in the narrower sense is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

This case is decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain.

a Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory, whether of paternalism and the organic relation of the citizen to the state or of laissez faire

It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.

Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.

To stick to a thing till you are master, is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.

No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.

All our limitations are in our own minds, the supply is there waiting in vast abundance.