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"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
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"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love."
Love
"You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad."
Enemy
"Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character."
Action
"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."
Faith
"You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all."
Art
"Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers."
Trust
"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."
Virtue
"If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic."
Time
"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."
Difficulty
"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."
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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
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"Those who own the country ought to govern it."
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"I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days."
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"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
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"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want."
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"I've got a great place, it's a country house."
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"Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler."
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"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."
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