If you find a decent quote relating to Rhode Island, please add it in to circulation within the portal. Here are some instructions:
- Make sure the place you found it is reliable
- Make sure it is not a controversial quote, such quotes may be removed at whim if deemed inappropriate
- Create a subpage for the quote, such as Portal:Cape Cod and the Islands/Selected quote/#, replacing the # with the number one above the current highest within the quotes.
- Accompany it with a freely-licensed image if possible
- Update this list accordingly
Quotes
Portal:Rhode Island/Selected quote/1
| The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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Portal:Rhode Island/Selected quote/2
| Well, the last chunk of ice that broke off was about the size of the state of Rhode Island. Some people might call that pretty sensational.
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Portal:Rhode Island/Selected quote/3
| To me Newport could never be a place charming by reason of its own charm. That it is a very pleasant place when it is full of people, and the people are in spirits and happy, I do not doubt. But then the visitors would bring, as far as I am concerned, the pleasantness with them.
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Portal:Rhode Island/Selected quote/4
| Texas could wear Rhode Island as a watch fob.
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Portal:Rhode Island/Selected quote/5
| Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.
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Portal:Rhode Island/Selected quote/6
| One hundred years after the declaration that all men are created equal, there began to gather in Newport a colony of the rich, determined to show that some Americans were conspicuously more equal than others.
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