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General Quotes are famous individuals from North America and beyond whose thoughts have marked our collective psyche with their wisdom. We include here quotes that are not related directly to the context, but that apply more universally when reflecting on the interactions of mankind. More will be added as they are submitted. New and old, all play a small part in defining the collective values which have emerged in North America and elsewhere as a result of these bright minds. If you want to submit one that you think qualifies for this page, do it. |
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“Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.” |
Agnes Macphail |
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“In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.” |
Barack Obama |
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“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.” |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” |
General George Patton |
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"Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent…The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words." |
John Diefenbaker |
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." | Benjamin Franklin |
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"Thus arbitrary power will have divided men of superior intelligence into two groups: the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt." | Benjamin
Constant |
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." | Eleanor Roosevelt |
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"Brilliance is not noisy." | Felix Leclerc |
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"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." | Alfred
Einstein |
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"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth." | Abraham Lincoln |
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"Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's contry. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better." |
Agnes Macphail |
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"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be
purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!" |
Patrick Henry |
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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." |
Nathan Hale |
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"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." |
Benjamin Franklin |
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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." |
John Adams |
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"Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile." |
William Lyon Mackenzie King |
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences of too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." |
Thomas Jefferson |
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"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too." |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
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"History teaches us that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure." |
Thurgood Marshall |
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"I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind."" | John Diefenbaker |
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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." | Benjamin Franklin |
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