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"You create your world with your thoughts."

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"

"Television has tremendous power over our lives."

"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."
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"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States."

"In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility."

"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."

"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."

"In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances."

"All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing."

"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives."

"We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent."

"It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system."
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