"All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly ..."

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Source : Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.72, Oxford University Press

Frances Trollope

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“The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.”
“For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.”
“Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality.”
“Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.”
“If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.”
“Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.”

Source : "ABC Reacts to Fred Thompson Entry With Boredom, Sarcasm". "Good Morning America", www.newsbusters.org. August 31, 2007.

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