"You will never meet anyone who admires the American founders more than I do, but they were human, they made mistakes. Perhaps their worst was that their Bill of Rights stops at the border. Inside the US, the federal government has been limited. Beyond the borders, the government has been able to do anything it wanted."

-- Richard J. Maybury

#Freedom Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Government Quotes

“Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?”
“Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.”
“The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.”
“You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the foundation for what you do. Presence flows into what you do. Even though what you do may be the same, there is a fundamental difference: The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.”
“After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.”

Source : "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.
“I'm the kind of person who always has to be on time and I'm incredibly professional.”
“Don't feel sorry because my life is over. Be happy that it happened.”
“Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.”

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