"The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought."

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Source : Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.1, Penguin

Lewis H. Lapham

#Strength Quotes #Army Quotes #Survival Quotes

“You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.”
“May my living be grace to those behind me.”
“We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.”
“He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!”
“The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.”

Source : Kwame Anthony Appiah (2015). “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”, p.8, Penguin UK
“My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations.”
“Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.”
“You dig in and you find something.”

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