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"I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important."

"Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent."
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"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."
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"It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it."
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"No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war."

"When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored."

"But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation."

"But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour."

"The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent."

"Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment."

"For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love."

"In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens."
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