Alex's Dad

" 'Repression!' Is the battle cry of the self-indulgent! To the self-disciplined, it's simply self-control."

--Alex's Dad

Alex's Dad

"If I must consume this poison to partake of your fruit, then I'll pass on the fruit."

--Alex's Dad

Alex's Dad

"Idealism precedes experience. Cynicism follows."

-Alex's Dad

John Adams

"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the 'latent spark.' ... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"

--John Adams, the Novanglus, 1775

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George Washington

"And you will, by the dignity of your conduct, afford occasion for posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind, had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining."

--George Washington, The Newburgh Address, 1783

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James Madison

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?"

--James Madison, Federalist No. 51, 1788

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