"Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible."
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"Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters."
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"I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."
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"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."
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"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"
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"It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts."
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"God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms."
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"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
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"Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child."
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"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it."
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"There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect."
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"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
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"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
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"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."
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"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong."
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"We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression."
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"Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great."
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"In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world."
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"When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself."
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"I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."
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