"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
-Herbert Spencer
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"Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.“
-Herbert Spencer
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"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."
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"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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