"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
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"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
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"America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand."
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"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."
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"There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art."
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"A zebra can not change it's spots."
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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
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"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."
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"A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude."
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"The bud of victory is always in the truth."
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"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
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"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."
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"Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns."
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"Harry Truman once said, 'There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests, and that the interests of the great mass of the other people - the 150 or 160 million - is the responsibility of the president of the United States, and I propose to fulfill it.'"
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"Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still."
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"A new presidential poll reveals that Democrats have the edge among voters under 30. The good news for Republicans is that there's only six people under 30 who actually vote."
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"A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged."
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"If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last."
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"Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state."
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"I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am."
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