“Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.”
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“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
“By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”
― The Federalist Papers
― The Federalist Papers
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