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We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to…
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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
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Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether…
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Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
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There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our…
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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the…
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I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not…
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The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
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We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and…
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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation…
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In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.
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We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first…
— James Madison
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The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
— Belva Ann Lockwood
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
— William Cowper
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Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by…
— James Madison
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If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue,…
— Mary McCarthy
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Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of…
— George Washington
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I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
— John F. Kennedy
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest…
— Irving Kaufman
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Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do…
— Laurence J. Peter
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. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives…
— Omer Bartov
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The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
— Claude Debussy
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