"Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?"

-- Joseph Smith, Jr.

#Country Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Law Quotes

“Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.”
“All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.”

Source : Li Po, “Alone Looking At The Mountain”
“I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing the Viet Nam war as immoral but one day it dawned on me that I didn't know what that meant. I signed up for an ethics class at San Francisco State to find out the answer.”
“Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.”
“There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.”
“War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.”

Source : Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.117, U of Nebraska Press
“I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.”
“I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.”

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