There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ~ James Russell Lowell
- 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined. ~ James Russell Lowell
- 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 bystander 08:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart. ~ James Russell Lowell
- 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Lyle 15:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Lyle 15:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- 3 Lyle 15:51, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:53, 19 February 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
- 2 nice analogy; opinions change. Zarbon 05:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- 3 bystander 08:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
| The United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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- 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 21:32, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
- I was considering using this for this year, but it is a portion of the quote already used in 2009. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:21, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:17, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
| There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all; and this my dear friend, being the order for my march, I will move gently down the stream of life, until I sleep with my Fathers.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| I will say nothing of war, nor make any animadversions upon the contending powers; otherwise, I might possibly have said that the retreat from it seemed impossible after the explicit declaration of the parties: My first wish is to see this plague to mankind banished from off the Earth, and the sons and Daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind: rather than quarrel about territory let the poor, the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile plains of our western country, the second Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life - unaccustomed to the din of arms - totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill, which being followed by a want of confidence in themselves when opposed to troops regularly trained, disciplined, and appointed, superior in knowledge, and superior in arms, makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| Lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| Let us … animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| Altho’ I pretend to no peculiar information respecting commercial affairs, nor any foresight into the scenes of futurity; yet as the member of an infant-empire, as a Philanthropist by character, and (if I may be allowed the expression) as a Citizen of the great republic of humanity at large; I cannot help turning my attention sometimes to this subject. I would be understood to mean, I cannot avoid reflecting with pleasure on the probable influence that commerce may here after have on human manners & society in general. On these occasions I consider how mankind may be connected like one great family in fraternal ties — I endulge a fond, perhaps an enthusiastic idea, that as the world is evidently much less barbarous than it has been, its melioration must still be progressive — that nations are becoming more humanized in their policy — that the subjects of ambition & causes for hostility are daily diminishing—and in fine, that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal & free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations & horrors of war.
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished, that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce, would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; that the swords might be turned into plough-shares, the spears into pruning hooks, and, as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more."
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| ~ George Washington ~
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| The story of East Bengal will surely be written as one of the greatest nightmares of modern times.
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| ~ Edward Kennedy ~
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