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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Vote, Voting, American

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

Peace, War, End

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Freedom, Others, Deserve

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein

Cruel, Dollar, Libel

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton

Love, Find, Reflection

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers

Men, Learn, Few

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer

Love, Care, Choose

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin

Time, Job, Someone

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie

Sunshine, Cannot, Others

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski

Time, Past, Blame

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen Keller

Saying, Done, Cannot

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Others, Ability, Describe

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

Men, Truth, Nothing

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln

Decisions, Reverse, Servants

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Mystery, Fellow

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Alone, Safe

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates

Evil, Words, Soul

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain

Live, Die, Others

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson

Society, Control, Enough

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
Dalai Lama

Change, Chinese

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm

Selfish, Others, Either

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Thomas Jefferson

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson

May, Country, Another

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson

While, Mankind, Suffer

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen Keller

Experience, Nothing, Find

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust, Great, Men

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury

Education, Money, End

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

Fear, Care, Done

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

Power, Knowledge, Ignorance

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington

Experience, Enemy, After

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