"Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will support the prosperity & union of the colonies. On the other we have struggled for liberty & made costly sacrifices at her shrine and there are still many among us who revere her name to much to relinquish (beyond a certain medium) the rights of man for the dignity of government."

-- Mercy Otis Warren

#Strong Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Men Quotes

“My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!”

Source : Samuel Lover, James Jeffrey Roche (1903). “The Collected Writings of Samuel Lover: Rory O'More, a national romance; with a biographical and critical introduction by James Jeffrey Roche”
“I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.”
“Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.”

Source : "Rip's Entertainment!". Interview with Paisley Yankolovich, www.emol.org.
“Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.”
“There's something really special about childhood. When you're a kid, you're at your most creative, and you're very plugged into your imagination and emotions. But when you get older, you're encouraged to dance around your feelings and disengage, and I think it's crucial to fight that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”
“The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!”

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