"The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all. The preservation of the public credit and the resumption of specie payments, so successfully attained by the Administration of my predecessors, have enabled our people to secure the blessings which the seasons brought."

-- James A. Garfield

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“I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?”
“Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.”

Source : Deneen Borelli (2013). “Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation”, p.219, Simon and Schuster
“By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested - a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of the Jewish masses. I was certain that with her as prime minister, all peace efforts would come to a total standstill.”

Source : "My Friend, the Enemy". Book by Uri Avnery, 1986.
“In the Communist Party, we address problems very openly and sometimes very vocally, and we point out abuses. This is a good thing. We exercise self-criticism once a year. Although 80 percent of the members of the National Assembly are also members of the Communist Party, this does not prevent them from sharply criticizing the administrative and governmental system.”
“I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.”
“If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.”
“To live by worry is to live against reality”

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