Quote by Carl Schurz
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. – Carl Schurz

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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbors rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. – Carl Schurz

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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. – Carl Schurz

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When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. – John Oliver Hobbes

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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals. – G.K. Chesterton

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Materialism is a circumference without a centre. Idealism is a centre without a circumference. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. – Henry L. Mencken

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