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America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility. ↗


— Jennifer Granholm


#america #carry #each #experience #his

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ↗


— Ernest Hemingway


#bloody #buzzard #confounded #even #hawk

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. ↗


— Christopher Hitchens


#been #boring #dull #image #left

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. ↗


— Aldous Huxley


#else #feasts #must #rare #solemn

Serious journalism need not be solemn. ↗


— Russell Baker


#need #serious #solemn

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. ↗


— Charles Baudelaire


#cemetery #drum #funeral #graves #heart

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago. ↗


— Jane Byrne


#chicago #citizen #city #i #i am

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity. ↗


— Queen Elizabeth II


#been #continent #dedicated #every #far

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us. ↗


— Joe Wilson


#awesome responsibility #decide #democracy #die #go

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. ↗


— Joseph Story


#advisable #ambition #consciousness #dangers #deemed






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