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• Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

  Benjamin Franklin

  World, Deeds, Masonic

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• With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused by a lack of pirates. Even more compelling: Somalia has the highest number of Pirates AND the lowest Carbon emissions of any country. Coincidence?

  Tim Ferriss

  Numbers, Carbon Emissions, Pirate

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• Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.

  Erik Larson

  Character, Thinking, People

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• The God we worship is no respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of men's rights, and a guardian of them-a fact clearly shown in the heaven-inspired Constitution of our country, and in the Gospel itself, which might be termed the Constitution of Eternity.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Men, Rights, Heaven

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• The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee, as well as from this stand, is that the Constitution of our country was written by men inspired of the Lord God Almighty. Therefore we, as Latter-day Saints, more than any other people, ought to be supporters of the Constitution, and all constitutional law.

  Heber J. Grant

  Mother, Children, Teaching

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• We should know why paternalism, collectivism, or unnecessary federal supervision will hold our standard of living down and reduce productivity just as it has in every country where it has been tried. We should also know why the communist leaders consider socialism the highroad to communism.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Communist Leaders, Down And, Constitution

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• It is said that brother Joseph in his lifetime declared that the Elders of this Church should step forth at a particular time when the Constitution should be in danger, and rescue it, and save it. This may be so; but I do not recollect that he said exactly so. I believe he [Joseph] said something like this - that the time would come when the Constitution and the country would be in danger of an overthrow; and said he, If the Constitution be saved at all, it will be by the Elders of this Church. I believe this is about the language, as nearly as I can recollect it.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Brother, Freedom, Believe

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• We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love the rights the Constitution guarantees to every citizen. What did the Prophet Joseph say? When the Constitution shall be tottering we shall be the people to save it from the hand of the foe.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, America, Rights

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• If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on our part, is to maintain and uphold the constitution and institutions of our country, and to protect an injured, innocent, and persecuted people against misrule and mob violence.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, America, People

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• Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Law, America

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• The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft, and let all the people say Amen! that the blood of our fathers may not cry from the ground against us. Sacred is the memory of that blood which bought for us our liberty.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Memories, Father

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• By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution of our country; and that human nature can be driven to a certain extent when it will yield no further.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, America, Yield

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• Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country; observe its principles; and above all, show yourselves men of God, worthy citizens.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, Freedom, Men

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• We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor of the government as you know we are all friends to the Constitution yea true friends to that Country for which our fathers bled.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, True Friend, Freedom

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• The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

  George Meredith

  Fighting, Men, Mind

  George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1912). “1844-1881”

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• The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

  Jonathan Coe

  Book, Two, France

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• The high number from the Middle East is only coincidence, he said. It is no particular choice on our part, ... We accept visa trainees from those countries. We'd accept them from other countries, too, but we don't get their applications.

  Martin Gardner

  Numbers, Choices, Middle East

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• The country is not in good condition.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Great Depression, Conditions

  "False Hope: Famous Quotes During the Great Depression", www.foxnews.com. January 20, 1931.

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• I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.

  Andrew Mellon

  Depression, Spring, Years

  "How It Was: The Year After the Crash of 1929" by Dan Agin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

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• But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

  Fay Godwin

  Photography, Avid, Trying

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• The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.

  John Dos Passos

  Running, Ghetto, Europe

  John Dos Passos (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.

  Andrew Young

  Eye, Land, Practice

  "Tongue Tied". www.foxnews.com. April 3, 2001.

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• Women need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else...And it's hard for them to leave their families when they don't have somebody to take care of them....It's a vicious cycle that's affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least.

  John McCain

  Training, Needs, Gone

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• In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, to compare them with the principles of other governments, with a constant eye to our particular situation and circumstances, and thus endeavor to foresee the future operations of our own system, and its effects upon human happiness. Convinced of this truth, I have no apology to offer for the following remarks, but an earnest desire to be useful to my country.

  Noah Webster

  Eye, Apology, Government

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.6

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• If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fighting, Decision, Ifs

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