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Former Governor Of Maine Inspirational Quotes (27)

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Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.
John Baldacci
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Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.
John Baldacci
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We pass now quickly from each other's sight but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.
Joshua Chamberlain
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It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure the snatching of seeming good to self and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.
Joshua Chamberlain
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Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
Edmund Muskie
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I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly and so surely.
Joshua Chamberlain
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Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.
John Baldacci
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He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President, and even compelled acquiescence or silence from that dread source of paralyzing power, the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.
Joshua Chamberlain
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Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
Joshua Chamberlain
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Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.
Joshua Chamberlain
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I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.
Joshua Chamberlain
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But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.
Joshua Chamberlain
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Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?
John Baldacci
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The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
Joshua Chamberlain
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The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
Joshua Chamberlain
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All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.
John Baldacci
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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
Joshua Chamberlain
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Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.
Edmund Muskie
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Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.
John Baldacci
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The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.
John Baldacci
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A radiant fellowship of the fallen.
Joshua Chamberlain
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
Edmund Muskie
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The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield.
Joshua Chamberlain
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In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Edmund Muskie
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