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"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."

"Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers."

"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."

"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed."

"This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars."

"Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is."

"Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice."

"There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back."

"Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest."
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"The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong."

"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."

"Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!"

"The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil."

"The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation."

"At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country."

"If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy."

"By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry."
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