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• The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy--a policy worthy of imitation.
  All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship....
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
• Reporters like Bill Greider from the Washington Post and Him Naughton of the New York Time
  for instance, had to file long, detailed, and relatively complex stories every day -- while my own deadline fell every two weeks -- but neither of them ever seemed in a hurry about getting their work done, and from time to time they would try to console me about the terrible pressure I always seemed to be laboring under....
• However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
  There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs....
• No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.
  Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency....
• Harry constantly irritated his friends with his eternal optimism.
  No matter how bad the situation, he would always say, "Well, it could have been worse....
• It is a maxim founded on the universal experiences of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interests.
  -- George Washington (1732-1799) Letter to Henry Laurens (1778)...
• Gay shlafen: Yiddish for "go to sleep". Now doesn't "gay shlafen" have a softer, more soothing sound than the harsh, staccato "go to sleep"?
  Listen to the difference: "Go to sleep, you little wretch!...