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“It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Done Politics Teach Honesty Industry Injustice Average Foolish Wicked Elsewhere Average Man Redress

Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.”

Has Beens Ideas Lasts Political Language Party Abandon Abandoned Elsewhere Vulgar Political Parties

Book:Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville

Source: Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville

“To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press releases, by disinformation, by low-quality studies, and by some suppression of information, manipulating the media and people at large. When the official scientific press does not report correctly, or obstructs views dissenting from those of the scientific establishment, it loses credibility and leaves no alternative but to find information elsewhere.”

“Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is not shaken, at some time in the year, by "old, unhappy, far-off things / And battles long ago", like Wordsworth's solitary reaper. We are a nation of immigrants, and not happy in our minds.”

Years Mind Long Has Beens Nations Duty Battle Prejudice Unhappy Canada Immigrants Elsewhere Solitary Long Ago Compelled Indigenous Not Happy Imports Reaper Wordsworth

Author:Robertson Davies