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You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#core #creating #environment #getting #government

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#conqueror #ever #exterior #i #life

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#beautiful #flowers #garden #give #give me

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#death #happen #i #more #nothing

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#constraint #contrary #every #law #laws

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#expressive #freshness #genius #humbles #illiterate

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#art #been #beyond #democracy #displacing

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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