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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain,
for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald Reagan


Founding Fathers Quotes

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by
which those objects can be best attained.
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. -Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The
Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1757

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan