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| Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread! | George Rogers Clark |
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| Delay is preferable to error. | Thomas Jefferson |
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| Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments. | Andrew Jackson |
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| Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. | John Adams |
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| Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. | Thomas Jefferson |
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| Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. | James Madison |
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| Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. | Thomas Jefferson |
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Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?
| John Adams |
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| Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. | Thomas Jefferson |
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| Diligence is the mother of good luck. | Benjamin Franklin |
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| Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. | George Washington |
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| Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. | Henry David Thoreau |
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| Distrust and caution are the parents of security. | Benjamin Franklin |
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| Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. | Henry David Thoreau |
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| Disunion by force is treason. | Andrew Jackson |
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| Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. | Benjamin Franklin |
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| Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. | Henry David Thoreau |
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| Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. | Thomas Jefferson |
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| Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. | Benjamin Franklin |
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| Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. | Henry David Thoreau |
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