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Quote by Eliot Spitzer
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation prem

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. – Eliot Spitzer

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Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administrations first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government. – Eliot Spitzer

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From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much – the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me. – Eliot Spitzer

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Ultimately, Americas answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. – Robert Kennedy

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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. – Philip Wylie

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To me, music has to be about freedom. Its the most important thing in my life. – Joss Stone

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True freedom is the capacity for acting according to ones true character, to be altogether ones self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion. – Corliss Lamont

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Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. – William Shakespeare

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The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. – Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist

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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Bad men are full of repentance. – Aristotle

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