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"I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress."
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"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."
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"Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is."
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"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."
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"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."
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"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."
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"I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues."
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"Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges."
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"Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?"
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"I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons."
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"It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation."
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"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."
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"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."
Friendship
"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
Peace
"People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have."
People
"Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce."
War
"I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace."
Peace
"I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards."
Coward
"I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress."
Nation
"The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices."
Education
"I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments."
Fitness
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