The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Frederick DouglassSpeech on the anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1885)
About Frederick Douglass
Escaped slave who became a leading abolitionist, orator and writer. (1818-1895)
More from Frederick Douglass
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.West India Emancipation speech (1857)
- Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.West India Emancipation speech (1857)
- I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.Lecture, The Anti-Slavery Movement (1855)
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
- No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C. (1883)
- To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.A Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1860)
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- If you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.Sun Tzu
- Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.Sun Tzu
- Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.Sun Tzu
- A skilled commander seeks victory from the situation and does not demand it of his subordinates.Sun Tzu
- All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.Sun Tzu
- Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.Sun Tzu
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