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“Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.”

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Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

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The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

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Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun,

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To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.

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I only aim at the powerful.

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Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state…

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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.

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the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on…

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Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we…

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During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're…

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

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There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

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The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

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Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go…

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That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

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You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

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The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of…

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

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