"Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed."

-- George Nethercutt

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“One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.”
“Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.”
“Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.”
“If u were Pinocchio, ur nose wld span the state.”
“We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.”

Source : Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College
“Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through some autocratic press law or a new Press Complaints Commission redecorated with false teeth. But there is another way. Let journalists regulate themselves.... Let's have a little democracy in the media. Even in the Murdoch papers, the number of journalists who are irretrievably lawless and callous is quite small. Most of the disasters at the News of the World happened because its editors treated their staff in the style of Muammar Gaddafi.”
“My dad would always say, 'When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?'”
“In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government”

Source : John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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