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"The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians."
"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."
"We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances."
"I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes."
"One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself."
"If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are."
"National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country."
"James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had."
"Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era."
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