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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. ↗

— Norman Thomas

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Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ↗

— John Acton

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As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness. ↗

— George Aiken

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