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I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.

John Kerry

On a vote to fund the 2003 Iraq War.

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Kerry, John. Remark about the $87 billion bill. 16 Mar. 2004, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

Speech at the Second Virginia Convention

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Henry, Patrick. "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" Second Virginia Convention. 23 Mar. 1775, St. John's Church, Richmond, VA, USA. Speech.

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Bacon, Francis "Of Marriage and Single Life." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Marriage and Single Life." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Johnson, Lyndon B. Remarks in Memorial Hall. 21 Oct. 1964, Memorial Hall, Akron University, Akron, OH, USA.

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Reagan, Ronald. Address to British Parliament. Parliament meeting. 8 June 1982, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Raleigh, Walter. The Cabinet-Council. London: Thomas Johnson, 1658, ch. 26.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Savile, George. "Of Anger." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

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Kissinger, Henry. "The Viet Nam Negotiations." Foreign Affairs, Jan. 1969.

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Bush, George H. W. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1989, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Ford, Gerald. Presidential address to a joint session of Congress. Joint session of Congress. 12 Aug. 1974, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." 23 Apr. 1910, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.: Letters and Speeches, edited by Louis Auchincloss. Library of America, 2004.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Law of England: Book the First. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765, introduction, sec. 3.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I Of the Rights of Persons, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, introduction, sec. 3.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Campaign speech in Boston. 4 Nov. 1944, Fenway Park, Boston, MA, USA.

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Meir, Golda. Speech at the United Jewish Appeal Rally. United Jewish Appeal Benefit Gala. 11 June 1967, Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, USA.

The Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

George McGovern

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McGovern, George. Speech at the University of Oxford. 21 Jan. 1973, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.

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Ibarruri, Dolores. Speech delivered at a mass meeting. 3 Sept. 1936, Winter Velodrome, Paris, France.

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Bryan, William Jennings. "Cross of Gold." National Democratic Convention. 9 July 1896, Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, IL, USA. Address.

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Bryan, William Jennings. The Cross of Gold. University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

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Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R and J. Dodsley, 1757, pt. 2, sect. 2.

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Burke, Edmund. "Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, pt. 2, sect. 2.

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Powell, Colin. Speech to United Nations Security Council. 5 Feb. 2003, New York, NY, USA.