"Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny."

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Source : John Hancock's Boston Massacre Oration, law2.umkc.edu. March 5, 1774.

John Hancock

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“The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others.”

Source : Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”
“Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.”
“Love is never jealous. It's a connection. It's an energy. It's an embodiment.”
“It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and [undocumented] children who grew up in this country, and who go to the same school you once went to... They thought if we only enforce the law, people will self-deport... It's not going to happen. The solution is not the status quo, or deportation when you're talking about breaking up families.”
“Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.”
“My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.”
“For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California.”

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