It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.
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