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Michael Ramsey
[100th Archbishop of Canterbury]
* "Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so."
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Ronald Reagan
* "An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count."
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
"How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall?" [first inaugural address]
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under."
"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."
“One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project."
"Our enemy is no longer Red Coats, but red ink."
* "Our national dialog should reflect the rich diversity of our free, pluralist society, and that diversity should be one of our greatest prides."
"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."
"There are no easy answers but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."
"To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."
"Trust, but verify."
"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."
"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."
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Red Cloud
"I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace all our days, and that He will look down upon our children and finally lift us far above this earth."
"In 1868, men came out and brought papers. We could not read them and they did not tell us truly what was in them. We thought the treaty was to remove the forts and for us to cease from fighting. But they wanted to send us traders on the Missouri, but we wanted traders where we were. When I reached Washington, the Great Father explained to me that the interpreters had deceived me. All I want is right and just."
"Look at me - I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love."
"The Great Spirit raised both the white man and the Indian. I think he raised the Indian first. He raised me in this land, it belongs to me. The white man was raised over the great waters, and his land is over there. Since they crossed the sea, I have given them room. There are now white people all about me. I have but a small spot of land left. The Great Spirit told me to keep it."
* "They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did."
"Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows, and arrows...What has been done in my country I did not want, did not ask for it; white people going through my country... When the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood behind him...I have two mountains in that country... The Black Hills and the Big Horn Mountain. I want the great father to make no roads through them. I have told these things three times; now I have come here to tell them the fourth time."
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Senator Harry Reid
"Congress is finishing this year less popular than a cockroach." [19 Dec 2013]
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Jules Renard
"The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice."
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Eddie Rickenbacker
"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."
"The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence."
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Will "Story" Rivera
"Search for ourselves first, dig deep to understand and accept ourself wholeheartedly, there are many parts of ourselves that we need to uncover, to face with courage, nurture and heal, to accept responsibility for our choices, we must cover every nook and cranny of our souls with unconditional love; this will be one of the most fulfilling relationships we ever have in our lives." -
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Tony Robbins
* "There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible."
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Chief Justice John Roberts
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
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Jim Rohn
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
"One person caring about another represents life's greatest value." [ascribed]
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
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Shalom Rokeach
"Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones."
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Mitt Romney
* "If you have to tell people you are strong, you aren't. If you have to show you are not weak, you are!"
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Mickey Rooney
"You always pass failure on your way to success." [ascribed]
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Eleanor Roosevelt
* "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
"You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
* "Lost Ground can always be regained--lost time never!"
"We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny."
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Theodore Roosevelt
"Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all."
* "I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do: That is character!"
"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
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Murray Rothbard
* "This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: It's a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting."
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Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran
* "Saying Death to America is easy. We need to express Death to America with Action"
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
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Don Miguel Ruiz
"Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering."
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John Ruskin
"Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death." [wrong]
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Bertrand Russell
"In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
* "The stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
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Keri Russell
"Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life
forever."
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Edward Rutledge
* "I am resolved to vest the Congress with no more Power than that is absolutely necessary, and to use a familiar Expression, to keep the Staff in our own Hands; for I am confident if surrendered into the Hands of others a most pernicious use will be made of it." [letter to John Jay, 29 Jun 1776]
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