It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
- Topic: Leadership
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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