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• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
  -- John Quincy Adams All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated through this Book...
• HARBOR, n. A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fury of the customs.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else
  and, therefore, they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, the Heloetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear that generates true courage....
• You may either win your peace or buy it; win it by resistance to evil
  buy it by compromise with evil. -- John Ruskin (1819-1900)...
• Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there 's no place like home
  A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which sought through the world is ne'er met with elsewhere....
• We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
  -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), (from his Inaugural Address)...
• The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are.
  Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning....
• Let the world go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike
  hat the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!...