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- We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
- Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
- Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows
- Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
- La Rochefoucald
- Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
- Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
- The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
- John Peter Zenger
- All we have of freedom -- all we use or know --
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. - Kipling
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