"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency."

-- George Washington

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“If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.”
“I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.”
“Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.”
“It's better to be skinny than to be fat.”

Source : "Natalia Vodianova: ‘It’s Better to Be Skinny Than to Be Fat’" by Hattie Crisell, www.thecut.com. April 23, 2012.
“It is how you show up at the showdown that counts.”
“I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.”
“They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side-if they can be heard. They think the politicians are going to yield to the emotions. I think the corporations are wrong about that. I think the companies will have to give in only at insignificant levels. Because the companies are too strong, they're the establishment. The environmentalists are going to have to be like the mob in the square in Romania before they prevail.”
“Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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