"Revolutions never go backward."

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Source : At Rochester on the Irrepressible Conflict, October 1858

William H. Seward

#Politics Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.”
“Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.”
“I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.”
“To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.”
“Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.”
“Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.”

Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.95, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?”
“You have your way of life, we ours. In your system of life we are essentially without 'honor.' In our system of life you are essentially without morality. In your system of life we must forever appear graceless; to us you must forever appear godless.”

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