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He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a

He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune. – James Bryce

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The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. – James Bryce

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Government
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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce

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Patriot Day
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce

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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. – George Washington

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Presidents Day

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. – Grover Cleveland, 1905

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Presidents Day

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

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Presidents Day

May it please Heaven that his example shall continue to serve as a beacon to our Republics in their darkest moments of doubt and adversity. – Jorge Ubico

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Presidents Day

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism. – Matthew Fox

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Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. – Emil Ludwig

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