"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

Bernard, Dorothy on courage
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"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."

Riley, Pat on action
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"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe."

Lincoln, Abraham on truth
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"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on relationship
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"Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is."

Anouilh, Jean on riches
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"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one."

Rowland, Helen on marriage
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement."

Reagan, Ronald on environment   

"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

Reagan, Ronald on economy and economics   

"We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule."

Reagan, Ronald on economy and economics   

"Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. "

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"For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter. "

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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

Washington, George on mothers
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"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

Washington, George on morality   

"Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

Washington, George on government
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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

Washington, George on freedom
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"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

Reagan, Ronald on freedom
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"We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity."

Reagan, Ronald on aid and assistance   

"Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause."

Reagan, Ronald on america   

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"

Reagan, Ronald on bureaucracy
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"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

Reagan, Ronald on politics
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"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

Reagan, Ronald on politics   

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Reagan, Ronald on politics
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"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."

Reagan, Ronald on morality
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"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out"

Reagan, Ronald on goals   

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

Augustine, St. on humility
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"Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these. "

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"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

Shaw, George Bernard on voting
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"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on arrogance
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"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

Newton, Sir Isaac on creation
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"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."

Bacon, Francis on truth   

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on compensation
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

Flack, Roberta on suffering
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"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

Ruskin, John on weather
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"I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river."

Chuang Tzu on joy   

"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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