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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan

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Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Frank McKinney Hubbard

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And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?
Theodor Seuss Geisel

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May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
~Author Unknown

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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas Jefferson

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

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Peace, prosperity, liberty and morals have an intimate connection.
Thomas Jefferson

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

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A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

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"If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."
Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 29 November 1802

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A Reader sent many Thomas Jefferson quotes, and we found them so fitting for the times, we present the first in a series:

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson

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Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.
Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm

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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

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"Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition."
Mignon McLaughlin

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis

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It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.
Suze Orman

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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)

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“If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.”
William Maxwell

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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead;
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit’s tread.
The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay,
And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
William Cullen Bryant, The Death of the Flowers