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• But Titus said, with his uncommon sense, When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense
  "I hear a lion in the lobby roar; Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door And keep him there, or shall we let him in To try if we can turn him out again?...
• Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
• Our elections are free--it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Ste
• The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
  -- Henry Clay (1777-1852) -- Speech, 1813...
• Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
  Then conquer we must when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!...
• Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
  Having found them, we shall then hate them for it. -- Emersons' Law of Contrarine...
• Emersons' Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
  Having found them, we shall then hate them for it....