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We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

George H.W. Bush

Inaugural Address of George H. W. Bush

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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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Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?

Donald Trump

Reported comment to senators at White House meeting on immigration in January of 2018.

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Trump, Donald. Quoted in Washington Post. 12 Jan. 2018.

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Golda Meir

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Meir, Golda. Stated after Levi Eshkol delivered a radio address to his nation. c. 1967.

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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not and shall not die.

Charles de Gaulle

Appeal of 18 June

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De Gaulle, Charles. L'Appel du 18 juin [The Appeal of 18 June]. BBC, 18 June 1940.

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Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself: Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. Spoken during presidential campaign debate. Campaign debate. 28 Oct. 1980, Music Hall, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Dan Quayle

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Quayle, Dan. Speech to Phoenix Republican Forum. 23 Mar. 1990, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

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Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil; or, The Two Nations. Vol. 1, London: Henry Colburn, 1845, bk. 2, ch. 12.

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil, edited by Sheila Smith. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, ch. 12.

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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Henrietta Temple. London: Henry Colburn, 1837, bk. 2, ch. 4.

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Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.

Harold Macmillan

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Macmillan, Harold. Speech in England. 20 July 1957, Bedford, England, UK.

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The Government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government of the de facto authority of the new state of Israel.

Harry Truman

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Truman, Harry S. Statement announcing recognition of the State of Israel. 14 May 1948, Washington, DC, USA.

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Rick Perry

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Remark after failing to recall the third federal agency he had just said he would eliminate if elected President.

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Perry, Rick. Spoken at republican presidential campaign debate. Republican presidential campaign debate. 9 Nov. 2011, Rochester, MI, USA.

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Simply because a problem can be shown to exist, it doesn't necessarily follow that there is a solution.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in Interavia Business & Technology. 1 Jan. 2001.

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Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely. It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless... If there is not sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another, possibly more effective pretext after war is on.

Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.

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La Follette, Robert M, Sr. Quoted in "The Right of the Citizen to Oppose War and the Right of Congress to Shape the War Policy." The Progressive, 1 June 1917.

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La Follette, Robert M, Sr. Quoted in The Historic Unfulfilled Promise, written by Howard Zinn. City Lights Publishers, 2012, ch. 19.

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With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas." 21 Aug. 1858, Ottawa, IL, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Cicero

On Friendship

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de Amicitia. c. 43 BC, ch. 21, sect. 80.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "Laelius de Amicitia." M. Tullius Ciceronis: De Re Publica, De Legibus, Cato Maior de Senectute, Laelius de Amicitia, edited by J. G. F. Powell. Oxford University Press, 2006.

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The intention of the lawgiver is the law.

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

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