"We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living."
-Davy Crockett
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"Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.“
-Davy Crockett
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"We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living."
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"The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall."
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"If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?"
-Davy Crockett
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"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money."
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"I have always supported measures and principles and not men."
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"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"
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"There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit."
-Craig Breedlove
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"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."
-Tony Richardson
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"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
-Edward Eggleston
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"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."
-Arthur C. Danto
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"Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life."
-Michael Savage
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