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“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Washington replied to Jay in May 1786, “but my fear is that the people are not yet sufficiently misled to retract from error!” Washington blamed the situation on ignorance among the people regarding the dangers to freedom and property from the excesses of democracy and wickedness by some who sought to take advantage of those excesses. “Ignorance & design are difficult to combat,” he wrote. “Out of these proceed illiberality, improper jealousies, and a train of evils which oftentimes, in republican governments, must be sorely felt before they can be removed.”
― Edward J. Larson, The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783–1789

“Put ambition for the collective interest above self-interest.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times

“This was no dictator or Messiah holding forth. Franklin Roosevelt spoke in the name of the people for a resurgence of the strength of democracy, for a constitutional system capable of meeting “every stress” without losing its essential form.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leadership: In Turbulent Times

“Judging by what I’ve seen, human beings are the devil’s own, his one true family. There’s nothing divine about us. We’re just a bunch of animals, greedy animals who harm their own kind, harm them to possess what they have, harm them to own. The only thing special about us is, we don’t die off when we should. We adapt. We endure. That’s our single greatest attribute as a species … our staying power. In our tolerance of misery, we are quite versatile.”
― Leta Serafim, The Devil Takes Half

“the poster read: Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. —St. Francis of Assisi”
― Phil Lesh, Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead