"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"

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"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."

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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will."

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"I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education."

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"Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress."

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"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"

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