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Mo Tzu

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Mo Tzu (5th Century BCE Philosopher and Theologian)
“It is the business of the benevolent man to try to promote what is beneficial to the world and to eliminate what is harmful.”
  • From the Basic Writings of Mo Tzu (Universal Love, part III, section 16), translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1963).

 

Murasaki Shikibu

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Murasaki Shikibu (10th and 11th Century)

“The letters worth reading are those sent when the writer was angry, or when dusk was falling and she anxiously awaited her lover’s coming.”

  • From Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji (chapter 2), translated by Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics, 2003).

 

General Joseph E. Johnston

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General Joseph E. Johnston (1807-1891)

“The revolution begun was justified by the maxims so often repeated by Americans, that free government is founded on the consent of the governed, and that every community strong enough to establish and maintain its independence has a right to assert it.”

  • From Joseph E. Johnston’s Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War (chapter 1). Johnston was a general for the Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War. He spent much of his time in the war trying to defend the south against the Union General, W. T. Sherman.

 

General W. T. Sherman

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General W. T. Sherman (1820-1891)

“Indeed, Florida was the Indian’s paradise, was of little value to us, and it was a great pity to remove the Seminoles at all, for we could have collected there all the Choctaws, Creeks, Cherokees, and Chickasaws, in addition to the Seminoles.”

  • From volume 1, chapter 1, of the Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman (reprinted by Renaissance Classics, 2012). General Sherman was stationed in Florida and South Carolina in the United States prior to the Mexican-American War. He would later become a major figure in the Union victory over the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War.

 

Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

“First, do not deal in shams. Second, if it is known that you do not mean to fight, and will do nothing which forces the other side to attack you, it is better not to take a leading part in fierce quarrels.”

  • From Winston Churchill’s 1936 speech, “Why Sanctions Failed,” in Winston S. Churchill Step By Step: Political Writings 1936-1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).

 

Dumnorix

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Dumnorix (leader of the Aeduan tribe in Gaul, 1st century BCE)

“I am a free man of a free people!”

  • Stated by Dumnorix around 54 BCE, shortly before being executed by the Romans for refusing to participate in Julius Caesar’s second expedition to southern Britain. Julius Caesar recorded Dumnorix’s alleged last words in his Commentaries on the Gallic War (5.7).

 

Julius Caesar

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Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE)

“Human nature everywhere yearns for freedom and hates submitting to domination by another.”

  • From Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War (3.10). This statement was recorded around 56 BCE, just before he began marching against a rebellion by the Veneti tribe of western Gaul.

 

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

“As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others, We should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.”

  • From The Autobiography and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Kenneth Silverman. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

 

St. Teresa of Avila

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St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

“I can find nothing with which to compare the great beauty of a soul and its great capacity.”

  • From Interior Castle (First Mansions, chapter I) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

 

The Malleus Maleficarum

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Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger (published 1487)

“And so in this twilight and evening of the world, when sin is flourishing on every side and in every place, when charity is growing cold, the evil of witches and their iniquities superabound.”

  • From The Malleus Maleficarum (Part I, Question 2) by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, translated by Montague Summers (Dover Publications, 1971).

 

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