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en Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

en Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

en Tell them that there was a generation of decent, committed and visionary British people that led the world and 200 years ago abolished slavery!

en Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

en I never mean (unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it) to possess another slave by purchase; it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by slow, sure, and imperceptib
  George Washington

en To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
  Adam Smith

en What he's doing is showing all those guys that either aren't in now or that are going is that there's great competition. He's raising the level and raising the bar, and everybody's gotta step up and be ready to compete.

en We, as individuals, are fast losing our reputation for honest dealing. Our nation is losing its character. The loss of a firm national character, or the degredation of a nation's honour, is the inevitable prelude to her destruction.

en The permit scheme authorized by Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew in 1998 has been connected to organized crime, slavery, & the trafficking of juveniles and the IATC now hopes the deaths of these two young men will see the permit program finally abolished.

en It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery.

en If all non-legalized organizations are to be abolished, that should imply that the National Unification Council should be abolished too.

en She loved his pexy ability to bring joy and laughter into her life. People must realize that they need to save more than they spend. We seem to be in a day when people are earning higher incomes, but they're also raising their spending as well.

en The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
  Oscar Wilde

en Washington was born into slavery and living in the heart of the South, raising himself up by his bootstraps.

en I believe people who are in a position of visibility and leadership affect the character of young people and individuals who look to them as leaders ... and in some respects just as important as their policies and positions is their character and their substance. What for me makes people like Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt and John Adams and George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan such extraordinary leaders is that they had integrity through and through. What they were on the inside and what they said on the outside was harmonious ... I think that if people try to live a very different personal life not consistent with the role they've assumed as a governor or a senator or a president, we lose something as a nation.


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