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What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

A public office is a public trust.

Attributed to Roman law and American statesmen

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Benjamin Harrison

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Herbert Hoover

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Jimmy Carter