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Quayle, Dan. Quoted in Wall Street Journal. 26 May 1989.

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Truman, Harry S. Address about establishing the Truman Doctrine. Joint session of Congress. 12 Mar. 1947, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Palin, Sarah. Urging her supporters to oppose Democratic plans for health care reform. Facebook, 7 Aug. 2009.

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Romney, Mitt. Remarks at private fundraiser. 17 May 2012, Boca Raton, FL, USA.

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Perot, Ross. Spoken at a presidential debate. Presidential debate. 15 Oct. 1992, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA.

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Caesar, Julius. Commentarii de Bello Gallico [Commentaries on the Gallic War]. c. 58, bk. 1.

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Caesar, Julius. The Gallic War, translated by Carolyn Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1.

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Caesar, Julius. Commentarii de Bello Gallico [Commentaries on the Gallic War]. c. 49 BC, bk. 3.

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Caesar, Julius. The Gallic War, translated by Carolyn Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3.

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United States Constitution. Amend. 7.

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The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Written by Delegates of The Constitutional Convention. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 7.

For it is commonly said: completed labors are pleasant.

Cicero

De Finibus

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De finibus bonorum et malorum [On the ends of good and evil]. c. 45 BCE, bk. 2, ch. 32, sect. 105.

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Quoted in Histoire de I'Ambassade dans le grand-duche de Varsovie en 1812 [History of the Embassy in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw in 1812], written by M. de Pradt. Paris: Pilet, 1815.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

James Madison

Federalist 55

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 55: The Total Number of the House of Representatives." New York Packet, 15 Feb. 1788.

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Madison, James. "No. 55: House Size: large enough to be safe.--Madison (or Hamilton)." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

For a city consists of men, and not of walls nor ships empty of men.

Nicias

Quoted in History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides

Speech to the defeated Athenian army at Syracuse, 413 BC.

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Nicias. Quoted in History of the Pelopponesian War, written by Thucydides. c. 405 BC, bk. 7.

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Nicias. Quoted in History of the Pelopponesian War, written by Thucydides, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 7.

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Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Little, Brown and Company, 1994, pt. 11.

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Kennedy, John F. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1961, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Mandela, Nelson. 7 Jan. 1996. Speech.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Fidel Castro

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Castro, Fidel. Discurso Pronunciado por El Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz, Primer Ministro De Gobierno Revolucionario [Speech on the Second Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution]. 2 Jan. 1961, Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba.

O tempora! O mores!

Cicero

Against Catiline

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habit." 63 BC, Rome Senate, Rome, Italy.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: In Catilinam I-IV, edited by J.F. Stout. Bristol Classical Press, 2009, Oratio 1.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistles ad Familiares [Letters to Friends]. c. 46 BC, bk. 4, no. 8.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Last Public Address." 11 Apr. 1865, White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech on Reconstruction, Washington, D.C., April 11, 1865." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.

Barack Obama

Quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., who likely was paraphrasing a quote by Theodore Parker in 1853.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Keep Moving From This Mountain." 25 Feb. 1965, Temple Israel of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA.