"What to the Slave is the 4th of July."

-- Frederick Douglass

#4th Of July Quotes #July Quotes #Conservative Quotes

“If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.”
“And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.”
“People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?”
“Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.”
“One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and its satellites-everywhere that the command economy operated, with its callous disregard for anything but narrow-focused abstract principle-could be forgiven for thinking that the Apocalypse was no longer imminent but in full cry. There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or worse.”

Source : Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“At the end of the day, it's about the best interests of the children.”
“If youâ€™re eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.”
“Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes”

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