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"The imperative is to define what is right and do it."
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Barbara Jordan
"The imperative is to define what is right and do it."
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"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
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"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."
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Wendell Willkie
"The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones."
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"It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think."
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Christopher Darden
"It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think."
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"While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong."
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Edward Hall
"While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong."
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"My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning."
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James Otis
"My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning."
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"A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still believe he would still have the same spiritual faith and also faith in us as people - not only people in our nation, but people in the world."
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Morris Dees
"A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still believe he would still have the same spiritual faith and also faith in us as people - not only people in our nation, but people in the world."
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"The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others."
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Jean Savarin
"The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others."
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"The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states."
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Burke Marshall
"The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states."
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"Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted."
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Albert Pike
"Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted."
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"I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution."
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Laurence Tribe
"I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution."
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"The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency."
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Anne Weismann
"The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency."
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"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."
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"I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds."
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Barbara Jordan
"I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds."
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"Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization."
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Shirin Ebadi
"Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization."
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"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
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Clarence Darrow
"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
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"As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race."
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Cass Sunstein
"As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race."
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"When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information."
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Kenneth Starr
"When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information."
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"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."
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James Otis
"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."
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"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."
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"Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter."
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Kenneth Starr
"Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter."
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"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."
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Barbara Jordan
"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."
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"It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision."
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Barbara Jordan
"It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision."
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"No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed."
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Clarence Darrow
"No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed."
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"We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition."
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Barbara Jordan
"We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition."
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"The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown."
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Jean Savarin
"The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown."
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"The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists."
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William Jennings Bryan
"The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists."
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"A war for a great principle ennobles a nation."
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Albert Pike
"A war for a great principle ennobles a nation."
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"A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze."
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Albert Pike
"A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze."
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"I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America."
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Christopher Darden
"I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America."
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"But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security."
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Asa Hutchinson
"But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security."
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"There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton."
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John Podesta
"There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton."
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"First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician."
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John Podesta
"First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician."
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"Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired."
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Len G. Murray
"Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired."
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"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation."
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Lajos Kossuth
"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation."
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"If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics."
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Lajos Kossuth
"If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics."
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"This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations."
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Ralph Nader
"This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations."
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"A man's house is his castle."
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James Otis
"A man's house is his castle."
Man,
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"We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done."
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Barbara Jordan
"We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done."
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"So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble."
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John Podesta
"So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble."
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"We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country."
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Charles Ruff
"We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country."
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"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."
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Albert Pike
"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."
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"But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer."
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Richard Ben Veniste
"But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer."
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"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."
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Bernard Meltzer
"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."
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"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."
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Barbara Jordan
"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."
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"The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy."
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Lajos Kossuth
"The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy."
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"There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause."
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Cass Sunstein
"There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause."
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"Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house."
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James Otis
"Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house."
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"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession."
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Charles Lyell
"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession."
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"If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare."
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John Podesta
"If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare."
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