Quote by Thomas Jefferson
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happen

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson

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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. – Thomas Jefferson

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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal. – Abraham Lincoln

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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. – Woodrow Wilson

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The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. – John Quincy Adams

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939

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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. – Henry James

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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out. – Ronald Reagan

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