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We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth.… — Ronald Reagan
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In… — Ronald Reagan
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the… — Ronald Reagan
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the… — Thomas Jefferson
I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair… — Thomas Paine
If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else. — Ronald Reagan
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one,… — Maurice Maeterlinck
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,… — Mark Twain
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know.… — Mark Twain
He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who… — Walter Raleigh
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being… — Benjamin Franklin
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite… — Victor Hugo
No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing… — Hannah Arendt
Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a… — Lewis H. Lapham
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying… — Thomas Szasz
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its… — Primo Levi
No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words,… — George Washington
The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood,… — James Madison
I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I… — Doc Pomus
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power… — James Madison
I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong… — Stephen Foster
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked… — Alexander Hamilton
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be… — Ernest Renan
The job of a manager is to support his or her staff, not vice versa, and that begins by being among them. — William Redington Hewlett

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