"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.”
“Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.”
“The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.”
“And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.”

Source : William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.62, Rutgers University Press
“Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as wellâ€”as though theyâ€™d been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrence. What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them allâ€”while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed with total objectivity.”
“No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.”

Source : Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner
“Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in Washington. If I do not like what my local community does, be it in sewage disposal, or zoning, or schools, I can move to another local community, and though few may take this step, the mere possibility acts as a check. If I do not like what Washington imposes, I have few alternatives in this world of jealous nations.”
“We each have the kind of children we deserve.”

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