"Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right."

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Source : Speech, US Senate, 1872.

Carl Schurz

#Country Quotes

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

Source : Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam
“You must see the persons who are in charge-persons you can punish or vote for.”
“I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.”
“Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.”
“In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances, it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.”

Source : "Sufjan Stevens: 'I've always been insecure about what I do'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.
“The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.”
“I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.”

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