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Great Quotes by Henry Steele Commager
- America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
- Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.
- A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society…
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