"In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts."

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Source : Joel Barlow (1796). “The Political Writings of Joel Barlow ... A New Edition Corrected”, p.192

Joel Barlow

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“Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.”
“A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.”

Source : Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.429
“I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.”
“The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master”
“Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.”
“We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.”

Source : Douglas Mawson (2010). “The Home of the Blizzard: An Australian Hero's Classic Tale of Antarctic Discovery and Adventure”, p.88, Wakefield Press
“I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!”
“How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own experience - free from the clouds of religiosity that often surround them Yet it's difficult to distinguish the tools themselves from their cultural packaging.”

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