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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Baccalaureate address, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, June 9, 1907
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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852), Remarks in the Senate, march 12, 1838
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I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Democratic Vistas
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Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961
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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia Convention, June 6, 1788
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of judging the future but by the past.: Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799), Speech to the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775
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We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but in the analogy of experience.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Speech on the sub-Treasury, December 26, 1839
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.: Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998), Speech accepting nomination for president, July 16, 1964
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.: William C. Redfield, Address at Case School, Cleveland, Ohio, May 27, 1915
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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.: Charles Evans Hughes, Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, June 17, 1925
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