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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."

"The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority."

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."

"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."


"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."


"The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity."


"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."


"I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content."


"Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering,High in the purer, happier air."


"Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,.."
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