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“Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips, / Think but one thought of me up in the stars.”
“Had she come all the way for this, / To part at last without a kiss?”
“Who might have bought a kingdom with a kiss, / Yea, half the world with such a sight as this.”
“Unheard-of wealth, unheard-of love is near, / If thou hast heart a little dread to bear.”
“Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.”
“Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.”
“The proudest human that walks the earth is a free American citizen.”
“The free individual has been justified as his own master; the state as his servant.”
“Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.”
“The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength — and strength alone.”
“I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.”
“The strength of all free peoples lies in unity; their danger, in discord.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
“The history of free men is never really written by chance-but by choice-their choice.”