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Classic Quotes by James Monroe (1758-1831) American president

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

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The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

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The American continents ... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. (From the Monroe Doctrine)

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If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.

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Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete. If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

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In this great nation there is but one order, that of the people, whose power, by a peculiarly happy improvement of the representative principle, is transferred from them, without impairing in the slightest degree their sovereignty, to bodies of their own creation, and to persons elected by themselves, in the full extent necessary for the purposes of free, enlightened, and efficient government.

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"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."
- Jack Handey

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Classic Quotes by William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) American journalist and publisher A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot. --------------- Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. --------------- In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all. --------------- Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. --------------- Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

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"A film is - or should be - more like music than like
fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.
The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all
that comes later."
Stanley Kubrick

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"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."
Jean Cocteau

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"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye
in the head of a poet."
Orson Welles

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John Kennedy once said to a assembled group of scholars in
the White House, "I think this is the most extraordinary
collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever
been gathered at the White House - with the possible
exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in
Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas
Jefferson

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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from
those who are willing to work and give to those who would
not. Thomas Jefferson

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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts
as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save
one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson