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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. – Caleb Cushing

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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate. – Caleb Cushing

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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? – Caleb Cushing

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We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq. – Bob Graham

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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. – Thomas A. Edison

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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. – Josh Billings

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If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. – Will Cuppy

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. – Emily Dickinson

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We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. – Brit Hume

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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. – Harvey Cox

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