If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
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Bob Marley
What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything, " I say, "even the...
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Lisa Kleypas
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Thomas Jefferson
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government
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More Quotes By David McCullough
To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before...
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.", NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)
