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From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union and it is not I that is to save or destroy slavery. (The Prayer of Twenty Millions by Horace Greeley 1862)

he described his own ideals, the desire for fulfillment not just as a theorist but also as an experimental physicist. (In the second respect, he, of course, never matched Newton.)

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

L]iterature is always badly served when an author's artistic insight yields place to stereotype and malice. -Home and Exile

Only after badgering ministry officials for eight years was he allowed to look at the Commission of Inquiry testimony. He has published an annotated collection of it as a book.

The new gun, Stanley said, would be "of valuable service in helping civilisation to overcome barbarism." When

One eighteenth-century bard was given a lovely estate in Harris by his MacLeod chief

Look, I said halfheartedly. Another one of those tumbleweeds made out of old hair weaves. Tumbleweave, said J.Lo.

As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have.

Regarding stickyfish teams, I favor the Bigfield Fighting Koobish.

Strands of his soul were escaping out of his mouth

We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared by the mass shooters, which there will not be, none of the killings would have happened if they didn't have guns.

Scientific racism' or 'race science' are both misnomers. These are pseudoscientific domains.

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.

Quel auteur moderne a donné de la monnaie une définition plus juste que celle contenue dans cette phrase d'Aristote : C'est une marchandise intermédiaire destinée à faciliter l'échange entre deux autres marchandises ?

Public services are never better performed, than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.