"The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan."
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"Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and coldest nights, that "sacred fire of liberty" that President Washington spoke of two centuries ago, a fire that tonight remains a beacon to all oppressed of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we call America."
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"When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that."
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"Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory."
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"For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ."
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"I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism."
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"We have God's promise that what we give will be given back many times over, so let us go forth from here and rekindle the fire of our faith. Let our wisdom be vindicated by our deeds. We are told in II Timothy that when our work is done, we can say, ``We have fought the good fight. We have finished the race. We have kept the faith.'' This is an evidence of it."
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"Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection]."
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"Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher."
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"When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing."
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"We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past."
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"We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others."
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"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal."
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"The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)"
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"We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world"
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"It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth."
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"The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it."
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"The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States."
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"A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character."
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"T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
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