"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on."
-Christian Nestell Bovee
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"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.“
-Christian Nestell Bovee
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"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."
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"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination."
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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