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"The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained."
"When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are."
"When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression."
"Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over."
"The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man."
"A positive mindset, not a doomsday mentality, supports being exceptional."
"Work on what you support rather than fighting what you oppose."
"Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'"
"Whoever supports the farmer is the guy for America."
"Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't."
"Dear citizen, if you were my love, I'd stole your money!' Admin if you were my love, I would ask you for divorce and spousal support!"
"Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law."
"It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail."
"You know that you yourself are not always in the same state. If you are exact today, closely united to God, and a consolation to the whole house, tomorrow you will be out of sorts, indolent, and a source of affliction to others. Then you will need their support, as you have supported them."
"A textual analysis of the Second Amendment supports an individual right to bear arms."
"Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives."
"I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance."
"Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians"
"Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there."
"I am delighted to have won so much support from my colleagues. The Conservative Party can come together - and under my leadership it will."
