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“The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?”

“The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.”

“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”

Source: Happiness

“However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.”

Certain Enemy Violence Activity Essentials Degrees Mass Crisis Strikes Scales Resistance Combination Revolutionary Camps Provoking Large Scale

Author:Joe Slovo

“There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.”

Men Should Certain Enemy Democracy Essentials Inspired Proof Good Life Compelled

Book:Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays

Source: Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays

“Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.”

Way Needs Mind Character Helping Challenges Enemy Virtue Teacher Building Essentials Valuable Tolerance Developing Peace Of Mind True Happiness Building Character

Author:Dalai Lama

“These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery - in fact, its only enemy.”

Thinking Men War Ends Facts Existence Leader Enemy He Man Essentials Army Slavery Unions Careful Civil War Rebellion Be Careful Trusted Hostile Traitor

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.”

Should Mind Persons Helping Compassion Enemy Practice Essentials And Love Grateful Tolerance Cherish Be Grateful Tranquil

Book:In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy

Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy

“The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Hands Able Enemy Cutting Movement Essentials Spring Intention Strikes Primaries Martial Arts Touching Hitting

Book:A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind

Source: A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind

“It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.”

Giving War Care Used Enemy Essentials Agents Instruction Espionage Bribe War Strategy Following Instructions

Author:Sun Tzu

“Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”

Source: The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World