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“America: A place where we can be a part of something bigger. A place where we can contribute our talents and fulfill our ambitions and secure new opportunity for ourselves and for others. A place where we can retain pride in our heritage, but where we recognize that we have a common creed, a loyalty to these documents, a loyalty to our democracy; where we can criticize our government, but understand that we love it; where we agree to live together even when we don’t agree with each other; where we work through the democratic process, and not through violence or sectarianism to resolve disputes; where we live side by side as neighbors; and where our children know themselves to be a part of this nation, no longer strangers, but the bedrock of this nation, the essence of this nation.”

“There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.”

“guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.”

“… only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”

“We do not pass through the same door twice
Or return to the door through which we did not pass”

“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.”

“It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are…
… We must always take risks. That is our destiny…”

“Distracted from distraction by distraction”

“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”

“The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.”

“Democracy is a state in which the sovereign people, guided by laws which are its own work, does for itself all that it can do properly, and through delegates all that it cannot do for itself.”

“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die, so that the country may live.”

“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”

“The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave.”

“Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
...Raise your glass to the hard working people
...Who need leaders but get gamblers instead”