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Jesse Helms

"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."

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"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."

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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

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"For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim."

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"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."

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"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

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"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

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"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."

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"I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported."
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"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
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"I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work."
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"We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support."
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"We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery."
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"The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study."
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"There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed."
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"It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative."
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"America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor."
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