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“What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.”

“It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.”

Ifs May Said Book Used Spirit Air Society Ordinary Diets Aphorism Lungs

Author:Frances Osborne

“One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.”

Ifs Reason Hands Spirit Felt Born Community Society Position Duty Succeed Democratic Excuse Chiefs Pockets No Excuses

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.”

“Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. Nationalities should form the constitutive links in a great world alliance, and must be guaranteed an independent life in the realm of the spiritual and for locally delimited tasks, while economic and political objectives must be guided internationally in a spirit of peaceful cooperation for the promotion of mankind's common interests.”

“Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.”

Ifs Life Humans Spirit Order Language Social Society Communication Relation Endure Immortality Sympathy Social Order

Author:George William Russell

“Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.”

Age Spirit Next Society Widowers

Author:William Ralph Inge

“Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.”

Life Feels Eye Past Spirit Society Building Reflection Mirrors Casts Architecture

Author:I. M. Pei

“Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.”

Humans Spirit Individual Given Alive Society Economic Policy Progressive Stakes Human Spirit Free Market Prosperous Economic Policy Contradicting

Book:The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words

Source: The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words

“Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.”

Men Humans Two Seems America Moving Spirit Certain Humanity Principles Society Strange Behavior Two Things Stability Human Behavior Astonishing

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America