| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Action | If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while.
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| Books | People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
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| Cause | The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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| Conduct | When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
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| Conflict | No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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| Democracy | This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
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| Food | If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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| Fools | 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
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| Future | The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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| Hypocracy | If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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| Insults | He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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| Liberty | The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
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| Power | Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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| Slavery | Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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| Slavery | As I would not be a slave, so would I not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
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| Tact | Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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| Tolerance | I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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| Virtue | It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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| Waiting | Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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| Work | My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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