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| "Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public." | John Adams |
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| 'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. | Henry David Thoreau |
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| 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. | Thomas Paine |
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| . . . the fulfillment of our manifest destiny [is] to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. | John O'Sullivan |
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| ...be yourself -- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. | Henry David Thoreau |
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| A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. | Thomas Jefferson |
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| A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return. | Henry David Thoreau |
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| A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. | Henry David Thoreau |
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| A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. | Daniel Webster |
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| A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. | Benjamin Franklin |
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| A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. | Thomas Jefferson |
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| A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. | Fisher Ames |
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| A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. | Thomas Jefferson |
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| A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. | John Adams |
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| A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was. | Zebulon Pike |
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| A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. | Daniel Webster |
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
| John Muir |
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| A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. | George Mason |
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| A good conscience is a continual Christmas. | Benjamin Franklin |
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| A government of laws, and not of men. | John Adams |
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