"Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it."

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Source : Broadcast from London on March 06, 1934. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, p. 21, 1935.

Stanley Baldwin

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“You can't conserve what you haven't got.”
“Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!”
“The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.”

Source : Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria
“Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.”
“McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight.”
“The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.”

Source : Francis Hutcheson (1755). “A System Of Moral Philosophy: In Three Books : To which is Prefixed Some Account Of The Life, Writings, And Character Of The Author”, p.266
“I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years. If I hurry I should finish the clock in time to see the cuckoo come out for the first time.”
“More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!”

Source : Leslie Ford, Zenith Jones Brown (1937). “The Simple Way of Poison”

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