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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Confucius
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Confucius
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain
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