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Today’s Quote:

Today’s Quote:. “By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination. ” ~Christopher Columbus. Today’s quote:.

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  1. Today’s Quote: “By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.” ~Christopher Columbus

  2. Today’s quote: What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country. John Linder

  3. Today’s Quote: Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. - Chief Seattle, Duwamish (1780-1866)

  4. Today’s Quote: A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn

  5. Today’s Quote: Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. ~William Pitt

  6. Today’s Quote: “The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” From Thomas Gray's "Elegy in a Country Courtyard," recited, according to legend, by James Wolfe the night before he died in battle on the Plains of Abraham

  7. Today’s quote: "History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living." ~John Smith

  8. Today’s quote: "I call them my children," he says of the American settlements, "for they have been my wife, my hawks, my hounds, my cards, my dice and in totall, my best content, as indifferent to my heart as my left hand to my right.“ ~ John Smith

  9. Today’s Quote: Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. George III

  10. Today’s Quote: For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself. ~Sir Walter Raleigh

  11. Today’s quote: Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection. ~Sir Walter Raleigh Letter to Sir Robert Cecil (May 10, 1593).

  12. Today’s quote: We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. Queen Elizabeth II

  13. Today’s quote: "This brought on the war which finally separated the two countries and gave independence to ours. Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people make of the blessings, which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. ~Patrick Henry

  14. Today’s Quote: "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin, ~1759

  15. Today’s quote: "That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1774

  16. Today’s Quote: "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.“ ~John Adams

  17. Today’s Quote: "Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood." -- John Adams, 1765

  18. Today’s Quote: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." -- Nathan Hale's last words before being hanged by British

  19. Today’s quote: “I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.”— Benjamin Franklin, 1787

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