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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

The world is at no time safe for freedom, which needs vigilant and unremitting guardianship
-- John Buchan

Nobody goes to the library for the book "Great Moderates in American History."
-- Rush Limbaugh