It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
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Harvey Milk
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle