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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."

"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."

"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."

"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
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"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."

"It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system."

"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives."

"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."

"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States."

"And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction."

"There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own."

"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."

"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige."
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