"The world needs a strong America."

-- Michael Mandelbaum

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“Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.”
“I don't get discouraged because of the comments. After all, they don't really know me.”
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”

Source : Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.”
“Never forget your dialogue with God, it is your strength.”
“I think the most important thing is how long do we stay in the disappointment. When my mother would see us wallowing in disappointment she would say, "change the channel." So I replace the disappointment with a new direction of where I wanted to go and how I wanted to feel. Also, when something isn't coming my way, I believe it was not meant for me.”
“Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.”

Source : "The Help". Book by Kathryn Stockett, 2009.
“If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.”

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