"The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior."
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"It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach."
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"We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism."
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"Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come."
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"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."
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"What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
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"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."
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"Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance."
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"Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state."
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"After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil."
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"Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament."
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"To get rich is glorious."
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"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency."
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"Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare."
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"Great men are never cruel without necessity."
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"The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away."
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"We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind."
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"Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite simply, it is that stupid moron's right to be that utterly, completely wrong."
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