"Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.”
“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
“Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.”
“Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.”
“You don't really get to know people behind the scenes. One can assume that it's out there, but I have no idea at the end of the day. I hope not.”
“It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”
“I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.”

Source : Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. July, 6 2001.
“That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!”

Source : Richard F. Selcer, George E. Pickett (1995). “"Faithfully and forever your soldier": Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA”

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