"We have met the enemy and they are ours."

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Source : Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

Oliver Hazard Perry

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“I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.”

Source : Letter to her mother, March 14, 1847.
“I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.”
“Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?”
“Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.”

Source : Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.”
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
“I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.”
“Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.”

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