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- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams
- Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy
- Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own… — George Washington
- We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What… — Seneca the Younger
- At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your… — Jean-Georges Noverre
- A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind — Mary Wollstonecraft
- The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so… — Benjamin Carson
- There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small… — Matt Taibbi
- I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it, — Unknown Author
- If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different… — Ulysses S. Grant
- Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of… — Thomas Boston
- Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace. — Kim Il-sung