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- To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), Crabbed Age and Youth, 1874
- We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
- Henry John Temple Palmerston, Remarks in the House of Commons, March 1, 1848
- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
- Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
- Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961
- For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), The Illiterate Digest, 1924
- The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.
- Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
- What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Welcoming address before the Democratic national convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
- I do think imperfection's underrated.
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.
- Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 08-15-2011
- I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, 1867
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