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- Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
- Ambrosius Macrobius
- A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
- Anonymous
- In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nicomachean Ethics (4th c. BC)
- Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.
- Max Nordau (1849 - 1923)
- Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
- Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)
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