"When we got organized as a country, [and]……" — William J. Clinton
"When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it."
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William J. Clinton
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481 Quotes by William J. Clinton
William J. Clinton has 481 quotes on this site.
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's…
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Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
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When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may…
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
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Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way…
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
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I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.
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Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
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Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates…
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Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our…
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Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it…
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together,…
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People…
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Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused…
— Dianne Feinstein
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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a…
— James A. Baldwin
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This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer…
— Euripides
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When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights,…
— William J. Clinton
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine…
— Martin Luther
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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has…
— Mark Twain
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Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused…
— Tim Field
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When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I…
— William J. Clinton
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