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    Harry Truman
    “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

    [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: censorship, dissent, freedom-of-speech, opposition, politics, repression
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    Harry Truman
    “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: accomplishment, achievement, inspirational, misattributed, modesty, recognition
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    Harry Truman
    “I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: humor, inspirational, leaders, politics, presidents
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    Harry Truman
    “If you can't convince them, confuse them.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
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    Harry Truman
    “The reward of suffering is experience.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, philosophical, politics, religion, religious
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: emnity, understanding-others
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abe, enemies, enemy, friend, friends, friendship, life, lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: honesty, inspirational, trust
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: enterprise, leisure
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: lincoln, mother, wisdom
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: frienship, success
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: faith, humility, prayer, surrender
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, perseverance, success
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us'; but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: executive-powers, government, separation-of-powers, us-presidents
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attractiveness, beauty, humor, life
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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