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We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

These are the times that try men’s souls.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we’re dead and gone. Even if it’s a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here – to another planet so they can mess that up too?