"Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones."

-- William Lyon Mackenzie King

#Progress Quotes #Action Quotes #Welfare Quotes

“How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?”

Source : Polybius, William Roger Paton (1960). “Polybius: the histories”
“His writings have made me his friend.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.12, A&C Black
“If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.”

Source : "Free Software Is Even More Important Now" by Richard Stallman, www.gnu.org. September 2013.
“This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.”
“I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.”

Source : "Mourdock dismisses Lugar attack". Interview, www.politico.com. May 9, 2012.
“With Uhuru [Kenyatta] running against [Mwai] Kibaki, the Kikuyus will be divided for sure.”
“I didnâ€™t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another â€” bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.”
“New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.”

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