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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. ↗

— James Madison

#best #body #composed #country #defense

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#dealing #easy #feed #forget #into

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#change #city #dramatic #dramatic change #enough

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#chorale #fostered #fourth #gets #helen

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#homeland #just #little #mission #off

When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#back #bit #bowl #door #down

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#feel #give #i #i feel #i feel like

But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#combination #deeper #events #fell #influences

I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#different #i #life #materials #mode

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#first #first amendment #going #need #offend