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- When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Writings
- What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty. - Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
- And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
- The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799), First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
- We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
- With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
- In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Beyond Good and Evil
- Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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