"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

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Source : Letter to an autograph collector from Washington on April 27, 1837, The Historical Magazine, archive.org. July 1860.

John Quincy Adams

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“He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.”
“By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.”
“A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much.”
“[Francois] Hollande said the United States and Russia should join forces. And his words specifically were to fight this terrorist army in a broad single coalition.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.”

Source : Eaton's Case, 22 How. St. Tr. 820-21, 1793.
“120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.”
“The world can be a challenging and difficult place in which to live. We are often surrounded by that which would drag us down. As you and I go to the holy houses of God, as we remember the covenants we make within, we will be more able to bear every trial and to overcome each temptation. In this sacred sanctuary we will find peace; we will be renewed and fortified.”
“Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.”

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