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"With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions, I tender you the assurance of my affectionate esteem and respect. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same. "

Lee, Robert E. on uncategorised    Share

"Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. "

Lewis, Sinclair on uncategorised    Share

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. "

Hemingway, Ernest on uncategorised    Share

"Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath neer within him burnd,As home his footsteps he hath turnd,From wandering on a foreign strand!"

Scott, Sir Walter on uncategorised    Share

"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. "

Washington, George on uncategorised    Share

"We would rather starve than sell our national honor. "

Gandhi, Indira on uncategorised    Share

"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised    Share

"The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living: that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience. "

Santayana, George on uncategorised    Share

"How can we live without our lives? How will we know its us without our past?"

Steinbeck, John on uncategorised    Share

"There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised    Share

"Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future. "

Ruskin, John on uncategorised    Share

"Whereof what's past is prologue; what to come, In yours and my discharge."

Shakespeare, William on uncategorised    Share

"More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. "

Warren, Robert Penn on uncategorised    Share

"One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done. "

Aristotle on uncategorised
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"Also the two-edged tongue of mighty Zeno, who, Say what one would, could argue it untrue. "

Plutarch on uncategorised    Share

"Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity. "

Disraeli, Benjamin on uncategorised    Share

"The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. "

Russell, Bertrand on uncategorised    Share

"There are as many opinions as there are experts. "

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on uncategorised    Share

"After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised    Share

"This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. "

Lowell, James Russell on uncategorised    Share

"We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised    Share

"I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised    Share

"If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. "

Hoffer, Eric on uncategorised    Share

"Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. "

Lowell, James Russell on uncategorised    Share

"We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can protect others, above all the states to which we are allied or in which we have a great national interest. "

Nixon, Richard M. on uncategorised    Share

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