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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
~ Benjamin Franklin, Letter on the Stamp Act, July 1, 1765. ~

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For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
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"I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places."
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I ... believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Letter, April 14, 1933, to Arthur Murray, President’s Personal File, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, vol. I, p. 54, The Belknap Press of Harvard University (1969).

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The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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My administration is pledged to follow the policies of Mr. Roosevelt in this regard, and while that pledge does not involve me in any obligation to carry them out unless I have Congressional authority to do so, it does require that I take every step and exert every legislative influence upon Congress to enact the legislation which shall best subserve the purposes indicated.
~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Address at Spokane, Washington, September 28, 1909. Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft, March 4, 1909, March 4, 1910, 1: 279, Doubleday, Page & Company (1910). ~
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