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• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.
  Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things....
• We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us.
  We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors....
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....
• and we must consider, that since -- unfortunately -- we are forced to live togethe
  he most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible....
• We cannot prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days.
  But so said all before us, and with just as much reason....
• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy
  for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselve...
• Peter's Perfect People Palliative Each of us is a mixture of good qualities and some (perhaps) not-so-good qualities.
  In considering our fellow people we should remember their good qualities and realize that their faults only prove that they are, after all, human....
• All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
  -- Kipling...
• Even if we put all these nagging thoughts [four embarrassing questions about astrology] aside for a moment, one overriding question remains to be asked.
  Why would the positions of celestial objects at the moment of birth have an effect on our characters, lives, or destinies?...