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- Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been!" - John Greenleaf Whittier
- A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), The Dosadi Experiment
- Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
- I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
- John Burrough
- I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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