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The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850