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An upright minister asks, what recommends a man; a corrupt minister, who.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) English clergyman, writer
Lacon, 1.9 (1823)
Referring to government ministers.

Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense — the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammelled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live: you are a subject and not a citizen. Republics are not in and of themselves better than other forms of government except in so far as they carry with them and guarantee to the citizen that liberty of thought and action for which they were established.

William Edgar Borah (1865-1940) American attorney and politician
Speech, US Senate (19 Apr 1917)

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849) Irish novelist [Lady Blessington, b. Margaret Power]
The Confessions of an Elderly Lady (1838)

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) Canadian-American economist, diplomat, author
The Age of Uncertainty, ch. 10 (1977)

It is not enough to say ‘We must not wage war.’ It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American clergyman and reformer
“Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?” ch. 6 (1967)
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