"I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill."

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Source : Gerrit Smith (1855). “Controversy Between New York Tribune and Gerrit Smith”, p.17

Gerrit Smith

#Morning Quotes #Mean Quotes #Gone Quotes

“You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.”
“In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will not let my church-going friends pat me on the head.”
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
“Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should be: Is a parent criminally responsible for leaving an unlocked container of bleach below the sink?”
“And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.”

Source : "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.
“My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection”
“You have to decide when it is time to move on.”
“To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.”

Source : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian village: reminiscences of other days”

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