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• I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
  I know no way of judging of the future but by the past....
• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
  Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!...
• Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell
  and George the Third ["Treason!" cried the Speaker]--may profit by their example....
• I smell a rat.
• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
  Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force....
• I am reading Henry James ... and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.
  -- Virginia Woolf...
• It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. -- George Washington, 14 December 1799
• The great object is, that every man be armed. [...] Every one who is able may have a gun.
  -- Patrick Henry, speech of June 14 1788...
• I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech, July 17, 1850, p. 437...