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The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. ↗

— Henry Clay

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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. ↗

— Henry Clay

#benefit #both #created #officers #people

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#burgeoning #business #businessmen #cost #discourage

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ↗

— Henry Clay

#break #fetters #oppressed #people #rise

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid. ↗

— Les Claypool

#i #kid #listened #little #little kid

There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#flow #fragrance #grows #hues #love

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. ↗

— Alice Walker

#because #become #enlightened #leads #self-knowledge

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#athletes #beaten #been #could #different

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#calamity #consequent #defended #equals #follows

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#best #bits #generation #hardly #just