A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.
If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
Leaders who fail are the ones who do it by themselves. Leaders who succeed are the ones who allow others to help them.
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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