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I am no one of consequence. I’d just like to think that when I die, the world won’t have been a worse place because of me.

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Worse than war is the very fear of war. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Famous Quote	added 20 days ago
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life. – Henry David Thoreau Famous Quote	added 24 days ago
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real. – Douglas MacArthur Famous Quote	added 24 days ago
To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ... – John C. Calhoun Famous Quote	added 24 days ago
The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching against every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings. – James Madison Famous Quote	added 24 days ago