"The sun has a right to "set" where it wants to, and so, I may add, has a hen."

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“My pollertics, like my religion, being of an exceedin' accommodatin' character.”

“I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.”

“Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrer money to do it with.”

“Did you ever have the measels, and if so, how many?”

“The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.”

“The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop over. G. Washington never slopt over.”

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— Harry Turtledove

Literature1949

#knowledge

"'Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,' said the Rat. 'And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either, if you've got any…"

— Kenneth Grahame

Literature1859–1932

#nature

"Mr. Chairman, I desire to state, in a few words, what I regard as the real question in controversy between the political parties of the country. The Republican Party holds that African slavery is a lo…"

— Benjamin Stanton

Politics1809–1872

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"Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle. He had to sign a truce. America's not supposed to sign a truce. She's supposed to b…"

— Malcolm X

Social Activism1925–1965

#war