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Founding Fathers Quotes

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy — A republic, replied the Doctor, if you
can keep it.
Anonymous, from Farrand\'s Records of the Federal Convention of 1787

CXX



That you were once unkind befriends me now,

And for that sorrow, which I then did feel,

Needs must I under my transgression bow,

Unless my nerves were brass or hammer\'d steel.

For if you were by my unkindness shaken,

As I by yours, you\'ve pass\'d a hell of time;

And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken

To weigh how once I suffer\'d in your crime.

O! that our night of woe might have remember\'d

My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,

And soon to you, as you to me, then tender\'d

The humble salve, which wounded bosoms fits!

  But that your trespass now becomes a fee;

  Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.

 	--William Shakespeare

Founding Fathers Quotes

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy — A republic, replied the Doctor, if you
can keep it.
Anonymous, from Farrand\'s Records of the Federal Convention of 1787

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Emerson