"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."

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"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

Townsend Harris, American Businessman

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"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"A man without a vote is man without protection."

Man

"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life."

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"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."

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"This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it."

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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

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"I'm the only president you've got."

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"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it."

Technology

"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."

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"Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else."

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"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."

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