"Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it.""

-- Benjamin Franklin

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“Big writers become a kind of shared climate.”
“At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will be turned into stone and my joints into flint in my grave, but my spirit will rise”
“Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!”
“I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.”
“Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.â€ I was totally confused. â€œIn the car?â€ â€œIn your life,â€ he said.”

Source : Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.308, Crown
“I understand that coffee and cigarettes are cool, fashionable and all that. But agree the tea with cookies still taste better.”
“The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.”

Source : Sam Donaldson (1988). “Hold On, Mr. President”, Fawcett Books
“Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.”

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