Famous Quotes
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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