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“Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.”

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David McCullough is an American historian and author renowned for his in-depth research and vivid storytelling. His works typically focus on significant individuals and events in American history, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'”

Knows Men Way Feels Doe Cities Habit Best Way Drivers Shut Up New Yorkers Bad Habits

Author:J. Cole

“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.”

Reality Forever Democracy Possibility Achievement Ideals Sorry Heroic Contrast Tease I Am Sorry

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.”

People Left Process Growth Term Numbers Democracy Civilization Increase Categories Decrease

Author:Howie Winter

“Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.”

Problem Democracy Voting Protest

Author:Jane Bowles

“Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.”

People May Use School Form Literature Names Belief Party Democracy College Flower Highest Election Fruit Manners Interaction Private Life

Book:Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile

Source: Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile

“The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures”

Purpose Belief Democracy Security Crime Ignorance Argument Chaos Endless Ridicule Scholastics Rulership Supplanting

Book:The Portable Walt Whitman

Source: The Portable Walt Whitman

“There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.”

Enough Democracy Republican Democratic Voting Congressman Politicians And Politics Funny Politician

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them.... I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.”

Mean Children Character Asks Nations Community Teach Democracy Subjects Building Taught Citizens Ideals Responsible Bounds Spectators Building Community

Author:George W. Bush

“If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.”

Ifs Want Believe Ideas Individual Community Differences Leader Democracy Plans Team Locals Officials Making A Difference Governors Believe In Me

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.”

Choices Community Democracy Chaos Determined Sentiments Cynicism Tactics Civility

Author:George W. Bush

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