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"Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job."
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"The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same."
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"Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men."
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"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"
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"Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress."
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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."
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"My first book was the book that changed my life."
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"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones."
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"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will."
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"The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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