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«There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans-who were not allowed to learn to read and write-and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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«No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.»
«No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.»
Author: John Peter Zenger
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Liberty
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«There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.»
«Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.»
Author: Lillian Smith
(Writer)
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«The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.»
Author: Michael Armstrong
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Work
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«O worship the King, all glorious above! / O gratefully sing his power and his love! / Our Shield and Defender - the Ancient of Days, / Pavilioned in splendour, and girded with praise.»
Author: Robert Grant
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«No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego like an automobile»
Author: William Rootes
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«No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«May princes know then that they begin to lose (their) state at that hour in which they begin to break the laws and those customs and usages that are ancient and under which men have lived for a long time»
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