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“To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.”

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Thomas Secker

Thomas Secker (1693-1768) was an English scholar, theologian, and writer. His life and contributions are not well-documented. more

“"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."”

“Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.”

States Individual Freedom Moral Democracy Revolution Weakness Bases Resistance Chiefs Submit Arbitrary

Author:Friedrich Ratzel

“The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.”

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Author:Thurgood Marshall

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

“The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.”

Men Freedom Mark Each Day Inherent Recognizing Compulsion Free Man

Book:Men Wanted!

Source: Men Wanted!

“We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.”

May Doe Lying Future Ideals Looking To The Future

Author:Ezra Hall Gillett

“First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.”

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Author:Cory Booker

“History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."”

Important Character History Study Materials Originals Insight Temperament Probing

Author:Charles Francis Adams, Jr.

“If you do not like the past, change it.”

Ifs Past History

Author:William Burton

“History is a record of exploded ideas.”

Ideas History Records

Author:John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

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