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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"There is nothing more operative than sedulity and diligence. A man would wonder at the mighty things which have been done by degrees and gentle augmentations. Diligence and moderation are the best steps whereby to climb to any excellence, nay, it is rare that there is any other other way." »Feltham
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"republic. I like the sound of the word" »John Wayne
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"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men." »Gerald R. Ford
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"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal." »William Allen White
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"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels
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"The hopes of the republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power." »Benjamin Franklin
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"There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves." »C. C. Colton
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"The Islamic republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil" »Ayatullah Khamenei
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"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's republic of China)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the republic is destroyed." »Abraham Lincoln
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"The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less." »Franklin P. Adams
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"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." »Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
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