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...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
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During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
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It may seem strange, but Congress has never developed a set of goals for guiding Federal Reserve policy. In founding the System,… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
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The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
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What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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President [Barack] Obama has talked about fundamentally transforming this country. There's 7 billion people across the face of the globe, many of… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
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It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
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Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image