"When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground."

--Thomas Jefferson

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"My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right."

--John Quincy Adams

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"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be."

--John Wayne

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"God's greatest gift is human life ... We have a sacred duty to protect the innocent life of an unborn child [which] should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ... We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life. ... There is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning."

--Ronald Reagan

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"Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete."

--Charles Dickens

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"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

-Josef Stalin

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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

-Benjamin Disraeli

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"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen."

--Ambrose Bierce

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"The purpose of all war is ultimately peace."

--Saint Augustine

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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

--John Stuart Mill

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"Going to war without France is like going duck hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind."

--Jed Babbin

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“The purpose of philosophy is not to seek knowledge but to prove that knowledge is impossible to man.”
~~Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

--Thomas Paine (1737-1809) American political theorist, writer

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"The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'"
--Ronald Reagan

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"The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; The leader says "WE". The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, "GO"; the leader says lets, "GO!"

--H. Gordon Selfridge

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"It is enough that I am of value to somebody today."

Hugh Prather

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"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."

Aristotle

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"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."

--Pope John XXIII

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"A liberal is a man willing to spend someone else's money."

--Carter Glass

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"The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist."

--Alfred Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam

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O execrable Son so to aspire
Above his Bretheren, to himself assuming
Authority usurpt, from God not giv'n:
He gave us only over Beast, Fish, Fowl
Dominion absolute; that right we hold
By his donation; but Man over men
He made not Lord

--John Milton
Paradise Lost

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True love does not have a hapy ending; true love doesn't have an ending.

--Irish Proverb

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

--Edith Wharton

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

--Mother Teresa

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
--Source Unknown

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When you're in need of love, reach out. There are people who love you.

--Source unknown

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"Enjoy all the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things . . ."

--Source unknown

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"Love is the irresistable desire to be irresistably desired."

--Robert Frost






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