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Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership. ↗

— Charles Edison

#democracy #leadership #must #our #poses

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#am #branches #congress #corruption #court

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#bias #content #contrary #flesh #hard

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#alone #beings #build #come #else

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#bloodless #bush #coup #court #even

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#always #because #bring #children #fly

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #life #love #marriage #matrimony

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage. ↗

— Roy Thomson

#carry #country #part #you #your

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#bought #furniture #good #good idea #having

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#girl #i #poetry #point #wrote