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More penetrating and pernicious is the influence our ill-devised machinery has upon the character of our national life. It eats in and into it. It degrades candidates and electors alike.

— Leonard H. Courtney To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs (1895)

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There is an imperialism that deserves all honor and respect — an imperialism of service in the discharge of great duties. But with too many it is the sense of domination and aggrandisement, the glorification of power. The price of peace is eternal vigilance.

The Life Of Lord Courtney (1920)

It is not everyone whose ductile mind takes him through this training, and a goodly number of up-growing men of not the worst promise for the future have to step aside.

To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs (1895)

It may be also confessed that life often survives all the perversities of training. We cannot absolutely nullify the prodigality of nature, try as hard as we may.

To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs (1895)

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