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“Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.”

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Book:African and European Addresses

Source: African and European Addresses

“The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial manifestations of a deeper struggle which is moral and spiritual and involves above all else whether man shall exist for the state, or the state for man, and whether freedom is of the spirit or a concession of a materialized society.”

“There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.”

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Book:Method and Results: Essays

Source: Method and Results: Essays

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

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Author:Vladimir Lenin

“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy