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(36 votes)   The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.

William Jennings Bryan
1860-1925, American Lawyer, Politician

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(82 votes)   Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Miguel de Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(79 votes)   If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(51 votes)   A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(44 votes)   The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(31 votes)   A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

Richard M. Nixon
1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA

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(24 votes)   No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.

John W. Scoville

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(22 votes)   It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

Madame Guizot

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(20 votes)   Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

William P. Merrill

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(19 votes)   A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

Freeman Dyson
1923-, British-born American Physicist, Author

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(18 votes)   Men are blind in their own cause.

Heywood Broun
1888-1939, American Journalist, Novelist

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(16 votes)   Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause.

Thomas E. Dewey
1902-1971, American Politician

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(14 votes)   We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(13 votes)   The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

Steven Biko
1946-1977, South African Political Activist

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