"Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely."

-- Heather Brewer

#Lessons Quotes

“It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.”
“Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.”

Source : 1986 Risk and Other Four-Letter Words.
“I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”
“Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.”
“No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.”
“The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first Administration.”

Source : "Politicians Show Their Gratitude Where It Count$" by Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2014.
“The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display, but from whom impossible efforts would be demanded and to whom all sorts of tricks would be taught. That's the army in which I should like to fight.”

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