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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking …
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. Everitt Dirksen
Member of Congress
My God, how little my countrymen know what precious blessings they are …
My God, how little my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of and which no other people on earth enjoy. I confess I had no idea of it myself. While we shall see multiplied instances of Europeans going to live in America, I venture to say, no man now living will ever see an instance of an American removing to settle in Europe, and continuing there. Thomas Jefferson
in a letter from Europe, to James Monroe In 1785
The only person who listens to both sides of the argument is …
The only person who listens to both sides of the argument is the fellow in the next apartment. Anonymous
From The Fountainhead, August 25, 1999, page 12
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‘Status quo,’ you know, that is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in.’ Ronald Reagan
-Remarks at a reception for members of the Assoc. General Contractors of America, The White House, March 16, 1981
The future of our nation will be determined, more than anything else, …
The future of our nation will be determined, more than anything else, by the character of our children. Ronald Reagan
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. …
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman
Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of …
Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day. Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the Progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity…….. John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848) US diplomat and politician, 6th president of US 1825-1829 , July 4, 1837
The fight had been the hinge – so one saw it – on which …
The fight had been the hinge – so one saw it – on which the large revolving future was to turn. Henry James
American author, on the significance of the battle of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775
I would say to the House, as I said to those who …
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government, ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat’. Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965