"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty."

-- James Madison

#Military Quotes #Long Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.”
“Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.”
“I tell people I'm too stupid to...”
“In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the great Silence, where you could not get at them, or they at you, then doubts, aching doubts took possession of one.”

Source : Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1971). “Ultima Thule”
“A colorful handle on a tool does nothing for me. Once it drops into that jungle out there, unless it's absolutely huge, it's gone until fall.”
“My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.”
“From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.”
“To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.”

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