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Georges Clemenceau Quote

“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”

— Georges Clemenceau

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In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

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Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty.

— Alexander Maclaren

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Man is not altogether an imbecile. True, "circumstances do make the man." But they make him only in the sense and degree that he permits them to make him.

— G. D. Boardman

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What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline, under the grace of Christ or the absence of it.

— H. P. Liddon

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Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

— Emmons

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