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"Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?"

"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."

"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."

"Historically, America has answered to a higher authority."

"America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV."

"In America everything's about who's number one today."

"If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America."

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
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"None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life."


"If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?"


"Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority."


"The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists."


"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you."


"Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared."


"My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me."


"This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity."


"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
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