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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."

"Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other."

"Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest."
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