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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Republics are ungrateful.

- Anonymous

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in water.

- Fisher Ames

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.

- Alexander Hamilton

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

- Thomas Jefferson

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

- Charles Montesquieu