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- The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862
- I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
- Yes, God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.
- Ely Culbertson, Must We Fight Russia, chapter 5, 1946
- At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Letter to Mrs. Sarah Brydges Willyams, October 17, 1863
- For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), Tractatus Politicus
- People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
- Walter E. Washington, Mayor of Washington, D.C., c. 1971
- Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Black Cat, 1843
- In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.
- Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
- The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conservative, Boston, Massachusetts, December 9, 1841
- A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Letter to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
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