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When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#democratic #dictatorships #doomed #experiment #fail

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#children #country #destiny #family #few

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#began #christians #crowd #define #did

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#along #always #audience #concerned #faith

The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn't available. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#care #concern #employer #families #getting

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available. ↗

— Layne Staley

#arteries #available #brain #brain damage #cause

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#computers #developing #development #explicitly #free

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#absolute #best #certainty #ethics #exist

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#chair #electric #end #high #high school

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#financially #got #i #like #marry