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Worth Repeating



WASHINGTON, June 4, 1998 – "Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience, you will find it a calamity."
Samuel Johnson
English writer
1709-1784

"The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force."
Voltaire
French writer
1694-1778

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."
Theodore Roosevelt
U.S. President
1858-1919

"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."
Pericles
Greek statesman
c.495-429 B.C.

"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."
Robert E. Lee
American soldier
1807-1870