"Be who you are and be that well."

-- Saint Francis de Sales

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“The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3
“Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.203, Harvard University Press
“A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.”

Source : Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.143, University of Chicago Press
“Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.”
“Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.”
“You have to commit to the what, before the how shows up.”
“The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. Were the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that were down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.”
“Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.”

Source : Sir William Petty (1986). “The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations Upon the Bills of Mortality More Probably by John Graunt”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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