"I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers."

-- Rose O'Neal Greenhow

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“His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

Source : Letter to Lionel Walter, Lord Rothschild, 2 Nov. 1917. Known as the "Balfour Declaration."
“The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.”
“Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.”
“I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.”

Source : Matthew Tindal (1730). “Christianity as Old as the Creation: Or, The Gospel, a Republication of the Religion of Nature. |. ...”, p.342
“Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away.”

Source : Cyril of Jerusalem (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Cyril of Jerusalem (Annotated Edition)”, p.147, Jazzybee Verlag
“I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.”
“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
“There are no instant solutions.”

Source : James Callaghan (1987). “Time and chance”, HarperCollins

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