Edmund Randolph quotes
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“to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and trials of democracy....”
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“A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.”
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“It would be a foetus of monarchy!”
-- Edmund Randolph#Would Be Quotes #Revolution Quotes #American Revolution Quotes
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“A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.”
Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.30, Penguin
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Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books
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“Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.”
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