"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality."
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"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book."
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"Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man."
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"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
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"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
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"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men."
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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
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"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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"I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people."
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"Nothing is stronger than gentleness."
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"A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections."
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"Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought"
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"Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong."
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"Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness."
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"A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted."
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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
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"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
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"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
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"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
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