"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."

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Source : Speech on Independence Day at the United States House of Representatives, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1821.

John Quincy Adams

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“When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.”
“If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven't done anything today.”
“The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.”
“Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.”
“I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”

Source : P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Wonderful Wodehouse 1: A Collection: The Inimitable Jeeves, Carry On Jeeves, Very Good Jeeves”, p.394, Random House
“What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.”
“To obey the Lord unseenâ€”in secretâ€”is the foundation of genuine godly service.”
“I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.”

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