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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. – George Washington

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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. – George Washington

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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. – George Washington

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Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. – John F. Kennedy

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The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics. – Stephen Samuel Wise

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In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness. – Phillips Brooks

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside. – Critias of Athens

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Now, you indicate to me that you really see that as communication going back and forth rather than simply individual expression. But communication is assumed to be a dialogue between people, not two monologues. – Quoted in Howard Stein, A Time to Speak, 1974 [See also above quotes. —t&#

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Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. – Todd Tiahrt

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. – Francis Bacon

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