"When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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“Very good. It was perfect.”
“Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you!”
“I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It is the stale artifice which has duped the world a thousand times, and yet, though detected, it is still successful. I love liberty as well as anybody. I am proud of it, as the true title of our people to distinction above others; but . . . I would guard it by making the laws strong enough to protect it.”

Source : Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1969). “Works of Fisher Ames: Memoir, by J. T. Kirkland. Letters”
“But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.”

Source : Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.52, Macmillan
“Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.”
“The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.”
“We allow each other to pursue our goals. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who was not happy with what they were doing with their life and Bono wouldn't either.”

Source : "Postcards from the edge" by Martin Wroe, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2002.
“I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?”

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