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We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other Nations, far away... We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Topic

Internationalism American foreign policy America and the world International politics

Speaker

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source

Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1945, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1945." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice.

George W. Bush

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Topic

America and the world American foreign policy Internationalism

Speaker

George W. Bush

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Bush, George W. B'nai Brith International. 28 Aug. 2000, Washington DC, USA.

A farm is like a man-however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left.

Cato the Elder

De Agricultura

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Topic

Thrift Money management

Author

Cato the Elder

Source

De Agricultura

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

160 BC 160s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Cato the Elder. De Agricultura [On Agriculture]. c. 160 BC, ch. 1, sect. 6.

Current Citation

Cato the Elder. "On Agriculture." Cato and Varro: On Agriculture, translated by W. D. Hooper and H. B. Ash. Harvard University Press, 1934, ch. 1, sect. 6.

We recall in special times when we have stood briefly, but magnificently, united. In those times no prize was beyond our grasp.

Jimmy Carter

Inaugural Address of Jimmy Carter

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Topic

American unity Unity American politics

Speaker

Jimmy Carter

Source

Inaugural Address of Jimmy Carter Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Carter, James E. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1977, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

January 20th, 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.

Donald Trump

Inaugural Address of Donald Trump

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Topic

The forgotten man American politics

Speaker

Donald Trump

Source

Inaugural Address of Donald Trump Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2017 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Trump, Donald. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2017, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Topic

Purpose of government Government

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1790 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

James Madison

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Minority rights Political theory Politics

Author

James Madison

Source

Federalist 51

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1788 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 51, The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments." New York Packet, 8 Feb. 1788.

Current Citation

Madison, James. "No. 51: How to maintain: make the parts check each other. Also, a federal system divides power further.--Madison (or Hamilton)." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy

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Topic

Human rights Natural law

Speaker

John F. Kennedy

Source

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

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

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Demosthenes

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Foreign policy International politics Political theory Politics

Speaker

Demosthenes

Medium

Speech

Language

Greek

Time

343 BC 340s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Demosthenes. 2nd Philippic. c. 44 BC, Rome, Italy.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

James Monroe

First Inaugural Address of James Monroe

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Moral decline Threats to the nation Threats to freedom Political theory

Speaker

James Monroe

Source

First Inaugural Address of James Monroe Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Monroe, James. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1817, Front steps, Old Brick Capitol, Washington, DC, USA.

In a progressive country change is constant; and the great question is, not whether you should resist change which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws, the traditions of the people, or in deference to abstract principles and arbitrary and general doctrines.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Topic

Nature of change Change

Speaker

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Speeches of Benjamin Disraeli

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Speech on Reform Bill of 1867. Conservative Banquet. 29 Oct. 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

It is very strange that I, a boy brought up in the woods, and seeing, as it were, but little of the world, should be drifted into the very apex of this great event.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

American Civil War Fate

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

The Daily Dispatch

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Interview of a Canadian Editor with the President." The Daily Dispatch (Richmond), 5 Sept. 1864.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. Quoted in "The People with the Governing Power," Conversations with Lincoln by Charles M. Segal. G. P. Putman's Sons, 1961.

Government is like a baby—it’s got an alimentary canal at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

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Topic

Government

Speaker

Ronald Reagan

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Reagan, Ronald. "Conservatives Rallied: Goldwater Can Win Presidency in 1968, CRA Convention." Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 1965, p. B5, col. 3. Originally, a joke during campaign for Governor of California in 1965.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Francis Bacon

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Topic

Curiosity Intellectual ambition

Author

Francis Bacon

Source

Letter of Francis Bacon

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1591 1590s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bacon, Francis. Letter to Lord Burghley. c. 1591.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. Letter to Lord Burghley." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The State is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break the resistance of the adversaries of that class.

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Class conflict Political power Government

Speaker

Joseph Stalin

Source

Foundations of Leninism

Medium

Lecture

Language

Russian

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Stalin, Joseph. The Foundations of Leninism. International Publishers, 1970, ch. 4, sect. 2. Originally a lecture called "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat." Foundations of Leninism lecture series. 1924, Sverdlov University, Moscow, Russia.

Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people?

John Adams

Inaugural Address of John Adams

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Tradition vs. modernity Tradition Progress Political theory

Speaker

John Adams

Source

Inaugural Address of John Adams Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1797 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Adams, John. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1797, House Chamber, Congress Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in har¬ mony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Nelson Mandela

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Topic

Activism Anti-colonialism Anti-imperialism Equality

Speaker

Nelson Mandela

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Margaret Thatcher

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Terrorism

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Margaret Thatcher

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Thatcher, Margaret. Speech to American Bar Association. 15 July 1985, Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't... All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Mao Zedong

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Topic

Nuclear weapons

Speaker

Mao Zedong

Medium

Interview

Language

Chinese

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Zedong, Mao. Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong. Aug. 1946.

In a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region.

James Madison

Federalist 14

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Republic vs. democracy Political theory Politics

Author

James Madison

Source

Federalist 14 The Federalist Papers

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 14: Objections to the Proposed Constitution From Extent of Territory Answered." New York Packet, 30 Nov. 1787.

Current Citation

Madison, James. "No. 14: Proposed union not too large for republican government.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.