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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.

  • One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

  • Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

  • Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

  • A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

  • Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  • I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

  • Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

  • I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

  • Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

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