"The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety."

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Source : Algernon Sidney (1751). “Discourses Concerning Government”, p.407

Algernon Sidney

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“Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.”

Source : "Q&A: Tony Danza on Don Jon, Fake Deaths, and Scarlett Johansson". Interview with Danielle Bacher, www.esquire.com. September 27, 2013.
“Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.”

Source : William Carleton (1850). “The Clarionet, the Dead Boxer, and Barney Branagan. [From “The Fawn of Spring-Vale ... and Other Tales.”]”, p.18
“Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.”
“These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.”

Source : Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.40, New Directions Publishing
“I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school”
“Anyone who makes a life of what they love is a hero to me, and it's important for those people to be visible in every kind of life, every kind of love, every kind of work.”

Source : Interview With Rebecca Keith, therumpus.net. April 2, 2010.
“Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.”
“A great man is made so for others.”

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