"We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance."

-- Calvin Coolidge

#Giving Up Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Mean Quotes

“WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.”

Source : 'England's Heroical Epistles' (1597) 'Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine' l. 123
“Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.”
“Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.”
“I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.”

Source : Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.6, SteinerBooks
“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.”
“Love risks everything and asks for nothing.”
“Let us protect with love all that God has given us!”

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