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God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.

— Benjamin Harrison The Status of Annexed Territory and of its Free Civilized Inhabitants (1901)

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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Shall the prejudices and paralysis of slavery continue to hang upon the skirts of progress? How long will those who rejoice that slavery no longer exists cherish or tolerate the incapacities it put upon their communities?

Inaugural address (1889)

The virtues of courage and patriotism have given recent proof of their continued presence and increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people.

Inaugural address (1889)

As president of the United States, I was present, at the first pan-American congress.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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