"Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors."

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Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.108, University of Pittsburgh Pre

Thaddeus Stevens

#Children Quotes #Humble Quotes #Levels Quotes

“Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.”
“People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.”
“I'm an old-school guy.”
“Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.”
“War is horrible because it strangles youth.”
“Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.”
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.”
“Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation.”

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