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Historical Figures Quotes |
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for
our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
Nelson Rockefeller
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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefeller
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The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.
Nelson Rockefeller
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Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Charles Curtis
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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Charles G. Dawes
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Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.
Dick Cheney
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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it
taken from you.
Dick Cheney
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There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what
they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that
point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
Dick Cheney
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We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.
Dick Cheney
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We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
Dick Cheney
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You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected
by presidents.
Dick Cheney
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I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary
and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
Jimmy Carter
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the
lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense
concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions
are made behind locked doors.
Jimmy Carter
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Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate
here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter
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We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's
leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy Carter
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What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will
of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it
does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent
people.
Jimmy Carter
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I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace
to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus
and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their
despicable acts.
Jimmy Carter
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights
invented America.
Jimmy Carter |
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
Jimmy Carter
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack
in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in
perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged
classes.
Calvin Coolidge
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always
simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses
both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or
the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the
unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series
of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics
is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit
to oppression.
H. L. Mencken
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense
and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his
children smart.
H. L. Mencken
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