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[T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people. – George Washington Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Friends are the siblings God never gave us. – Mencius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
When we are considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to guard against abuses. It is no doubt very desirable that we should hold out as many inducements as possible for the worthy part of mankind to come and settle amongst us, and throw their fortunes into a common lot with ours. But why is this desirable? Not merely to swell the catalogue of people. No, sir, it is to increase the wealth and strength of the community; and those who acquire the rights of citizenship without adding to the strength or wealth of the community are not the people we are in want of … I should be exceedingly sorry, sir, that our rule of naturalization excluded a single person of good fame that really meant to incorporate himself into our society; on the other hand, I do not wish that any man should acquire the privilege, but such as would be a real addition to the wealth or strength of the United States. – James Madison Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
What can be more reasonable than that when crowds of them [immigrants] come here, they should be forced to renounce everything contrary to the spirit of the Constitution[?] – James Madison Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. – Ramsey Clark Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. – Murray N. Rothbard Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice, and on the love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education, and family. The opinion advanced in Notes on Virginia [by Thomas Jefferson] is undoubtedly correct, that foreigners will generally be apt to bring with them attachments to the persons they have left behind; to the country of their nativity, and to its particular customs and manners. They will also entertain opinions on government congenial with those under which they have lived; or, if they should be led hither from a preference to ours, how extremely unlikely is it that they will bring with them that temperate love of liberty, so essential to real republicanism? – Alexander Hamilton Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
In the recommendation to admit indiscriminately foreign emigrants of every description to the privileges of American citizens on their first entrance into our country, there is an attempt to break down every pale which has been erected for the preservation of a national spirit and a national character; and to let in the most powerful means of perverting and corrupting both the one and the other. – Alexander Hamilton Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens the moment they put foot in our country would be nothing less than to admit the Grecian horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty. – Alexander Hamilton Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Love is a verb, not a noun. It requires action; intention. In love, there is no being, only doing. – E. M. Walsh Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class. – Choi Hong Hi Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. – Mae West Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. – Mae West Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Fairy Tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. – G. K. Chesterton Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. – Arnold Schwarzenegger Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. – Leonardo Da Vinci Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. – Vernon Howard Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
A man with no enemies is a man with no character. – Paul Newman Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. – Sir Winston Churchill Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Will: He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, “Choose.” Sean: Well, I gotta go with the belt there. Will: I used to go with the wrench. Sean: Why? Will: Cause fuck him, that’s why. – Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training… what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. – Socrates Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. – Rabindranath Tagore Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. – Robert Heinlein Famous Quote	added 5 years ago

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