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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. - Albert Pike

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. – Albert Pike

Other quotes by Albert Pike

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. – Albert Pike

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Men
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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. – Albert Pike

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Learning
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Other Quotes from
Politics
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. – Gore Vidal

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Politics

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: Id already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. – Jack Kemp

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Politics

I didnt become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. Its not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more. – Nick Clegg

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Politics

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions. – David Miliband

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Politics

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Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if were scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we dont have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own to do list. – Michelle Obama

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Health

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. – Todd Gitlin

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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. – Brian Ferneyhough

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cool

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. – Julie Andrews

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motivational