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Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Department of Defense news briefing. 11 Apr. 2003, Pentagon, Washington, DC, USA.

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It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant, and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

Hugo Black

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Black, Hugo L. James Madison lecture. 17 Feb. 1960, New York University School of Law, New York University, New York City, NY, USA.

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The United States could well declare unilaterally that this stage of the Vietnam war is over-that we have "won" in the sense that our Armed Forces are in control of most of the field and no potential enemy is in a position to establish its authority over South Vietnam.

George Aiken

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Aiken, George. "Vietnam Analysis-Present and Future." US Senate. 19 Oct. 1966, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Aiken, George. "Vietnam Analysis-Present and Future." Landmark Speeches on the Vietnam War. Texas A&M University Press, 2010.

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The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality... That's not the way the world really works anymore.... We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."

Ron Suskind

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Suskind, Ron. "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush." The New York Times Magazine, 17 Oct. 2004.

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From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it’s going to be only America First.

Donald Trump

Inaugural Address of Donald Trump

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

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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

Barack Obama

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Obama, Barack. Victory speech in presidential election. 4 Nov. 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, IL, USA.

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As long as you live you ain't never gonna see no black vice president. Not while the president's white! Oh no, you will never see. Do you know what they say, “never say never”? I'm saying never! Never see no black vice president. Not while there’s a white president, and you know why? ‘Cause some black guy would just kill the president, that’s why! Shit, I’d do it!

Chris Rock

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

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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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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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Public opinion in this country is everything.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. Speech at Columbus, Ohio. 16 Sept. 1859, Columbus, OH, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true... No. The only tired I was was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

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Parks, Rosa. Rosa Parks: My Story. Dial Books, 1992, ch. 8.

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Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that.

Fahrenheit 9/11

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Fahrenheit 9/11. Directed by Michael Moore, Dog Eat Dog Films/Fellowship Adventure Group, 2004.

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The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the union.

Andrew Jackson

Second Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson

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Jackson, Andrew. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1833, House Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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With experience enough in subordinate offices to have seen the difficulties of this the greatest of all, I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

Thomas Jefferson

First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson, Thomas. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1801, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Thomas Jefferson

First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson, Thomas. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1801, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs.

Donald Trump

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

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Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.

Thomas Jefferson

First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson, Thomas. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1801, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Government is not the problem, and Government is not the solution. We—the American people—we are the solution. Our Founders understood that well and gave us a democracy strong enough to endure for centuries, flexible enough to face our common challenges and advance our common dreams in each new day.

Bill Clinton

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton

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Clinton, William J. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1997, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The destruction of our state governments or the annihilation of their control over the local concerns of the people would lead directly to revolution and anarchy, and finally to despotism and military domination. In proportion, therefore, as the general government encroaches upon the rights of the states, in the same proportion does it impair its own power and detract from its ability to fulfill the purposes of its creation.

Andrew Jackson

Second Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson

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Jackson, Andrew. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1833, House Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

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