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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.


Archibald Alexander

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ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.
ALEXANDER AHNDORIL Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
LAMAR ALEXANDER If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
LAMAR ALEXANDER The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to beg...
LAMAR ALEXANDER We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren'...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don...
LAMAR ALEXANDER President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We...
LAMAR ALEXANDER We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up...
LAMAR ALEXANDER It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and mor...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, tha...
LAMAR ALEXANDER There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president an...
LAMAR ALEXANDER If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting mone...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
LAMAR ALEXANDER When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins...
LAMAR ALEXANDER When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and th...
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