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“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.”
“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done for ever.”
An address on citizenship in democratic societies, examining civic duty, individual responsibility, public service, equality, liberty and political conduct.