"The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to disagree. Some questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether they are. In such cases, like Prohibition and abortion, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the conscience of the individual, not the coercive power of the state."

-- Edward Kennedy

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“Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.”
“If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.”

Source : James Buchanan, United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan) (1968). “James Buchanan, 1791-1868: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns
“A garden is the best alternative therapy.”
“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.”
“Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.”
“From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself”
“The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.”
“When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.”

Source : Harry Stack Sullivan (1940). “Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry: The First William Alanson White Memorial Lectures”

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