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• To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

  Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)

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• Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

  Winston Churchill1874–1965

• No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

  H. L. Mencken1880–1956‘Notes On Journalism’ in the Chicago Tribune (19 September 1926)

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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