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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
— Tori Amos
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There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.…
— John F. Kennedy
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I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen…
— Christopher Nolan
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I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
— Laura Benanti
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I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.
— Marlene Dumas
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American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
— Raoul Dufy
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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is…
— Mark Twain
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Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .
— Thomas Jefferson
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Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.
— Robert Motherwell
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Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for…
— Thomas Eakins
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Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so…
— Jerry Saltz
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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
— Martin Scorsese
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