"The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs……" — Thomas B. Macaulay

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• The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy.… — Julian Bond
• Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books… — Anthony Burgess
• The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. — George W. Bush
• You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you… — Rosalynn Carter
• When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the… — Marc Chagall
• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let… — Yasser Arafat
• The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence… — Michelangelo
• For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be… — Martin Luther
• I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of… — Thomas Jefferson
• In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the… — Alfred Russel Wallace
• No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made… — Trey Gowdy
• The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested… — James Madison

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