Pericles on Poverty

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“A confession of poverty is disgrace to no man; no effort to avoid it is disgrace indeed.”

–Pericles

John Adams on Government

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“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

–John Adams

Calvin Coolidge on Honor

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“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”

–Calvin Coolidge

Winston Churchill on Capitalism vs. Socialism

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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

–Winston Churchill