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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternal

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. – Thomas Jefferson

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? – Thomas Jefferson

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I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out. – Eliot Spitzer

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I promised to empower the taxpayer – instead of a handful of big government union bosses. – Scott Walker

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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. – Wilhelm Reich

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Its opportunity. Its opportunity, not a check from government – its opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans. – Mitt Romney

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SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak. – John Donne

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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much — if he lives and uses that in hand day by day — shall be full to running over. – Edgar Cayce

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The epigram is a handy weapon, having the keenness of the stiletto, and its glitter. – William Watson, “A Note on Epigram,” 1883 [a little altered —tε&#5511

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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. – Bruce Springsteen

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