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“An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.”

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I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

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You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

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God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into…

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When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

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Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

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