"In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character."

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Source : Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303

Noah Webster

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“In terms of column writing, with the exception of one or two others, I am probably paid as well as you can be as a journalist. I attribute some of this success to my ability to haggle. The main thing in this game is to ask for money and when they tell you the amount you say, "no, I want more".”
“We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed”
“My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.”

Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.413, Rowman & Littlefield
“If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.”

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. I, 1938.
“The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.”
“I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. I'm very hands-on.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”
“I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.”

Source : "Dan Aykroyd for 'Christmas with the Kranks'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 24, 2004.

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