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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his… — Calvin Coolidge
On immigration policy, I believe we ought to call an immediate halt, stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration back to about 250,000 to 300,000,… — Pat Buchanan
The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you… — Joan Didion
In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will… — David McMurtrie Gregg
There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away. — Rachel Simmons
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of… — Louis Agassiz
So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the gap [in border security] that… — Michael Chertoff
It simply doesn't make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to… — William J. Clinton
Immigrants are exactly what America needs. They're what we need economically, and I think they're what we need morally... [They] revitalize America and get it… — Rudy Giuliani
...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go… — Ed Koch
Nobody here's for open borders. When undocumented people are apprehended, they should be sent back to wherever they came from. — Richard Polanco
Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the basic notions of… — Ronald Reagan
I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those who've come here… — Mitt Romney
There are going to be stories of very young kids that were brought to this country at a very young age who don't even speak… — Marco Rubio
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does… — Edgar Lee Masters
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of… — Taisen Deshimaru
It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of… — Erma Bombeck
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the… — James Madison
Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still… — David Hume

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