"The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed."
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"Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College."
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"One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free."
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"Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other."
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"President Obama believes in a level playing field."
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"The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow."
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"Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America!"
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"Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action."
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"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."
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"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."
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"They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots."
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"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."
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"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
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"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."
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"Donald Trump came out as a birther, which is Republican for, 'I'm running for president.'"
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"I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve."
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"The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States."
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"I know how important voting and elections are. But everybody know that life is going to be life regardless of who is president."
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"No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community."
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"President Obama Tastes the Bitter Fruit of Appeasement...of Israel, not Iran"
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