"America
will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose
our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
-
President Abraham Lincoln
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“A
house divided against itself cannot stand.”
-
President Abraham
Lincoln
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"The
notion of political correctness declares certain topics, certain
expressions, and even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a
crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even
censorship."
- President George H.W.
Bush
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"Use
power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our
own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name.
There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people."
-
President George H.W.
Bush
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“It
is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it
taken from you.”
- Vice President Dick
Cheney
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“People
tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his
sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, 'How do you think I
got the job?”
- Vice President Dick
Cheney
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“Don't
join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal
thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
–
President Dwight Eisenhower
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“History
does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the
timid.”
– President Dwight Eisenhower
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“I
have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and
that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”
-
President Dwight Eisenhower
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“I
like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more
to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people
want peace so much that one of these days governments had better
get out of the way and let them have it.”
- President
Dwight
Eisenhower
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“I
have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are
hungry, if you are starving.”
– New Mexico
Senator Pete Domenici
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“I
cannot begin to tell you how much satisfaction I have gotten from
working with New Mexicans of every background and station in life.
The partnership New Mexicans and I have shared has been wonderful.
I thank the thousands of people who have worked on hundreds of
projects and ideas with me. We have accomplished so much and we
have made our state a better place to live and grow.”
–
New Mexico Senator Pete
Domenici
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“Do
not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President
and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never
surrender. They will.”
- Arizona Senator John McCain
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“A
government big enough to give you everything you want is a
government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
-
President Gerald R. Ford
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“For
millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for
the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for
moral ideas.”
- President Gerald R.
Ford
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"I
don't give a damn about my popularity. When I get back to Crawford
and look in the mirror, all I will have are my principles."
-
President George W. Bush
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“Terrorist
attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but
they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter
steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.”
-
President George W.
Bush
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“If
you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed,
come over to the Senate.
You'll get the same kind of
feeling and you won't have to pay.”
- Kansas Senator
Bob
Dole
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“It
is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who
strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again,
because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who
knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends
himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end,
the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he
fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place
shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither
victory nor defeat.”
– President Teddy
Roosevelt
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“A
man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good
enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man
is entitled, and less than that no man shall have.”
–
President Teddy
Roosevelt
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“As
we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we
must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms
become a part of our society…”
-
Louisiana
Governor Bobby
Jindal
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“…Not
only are we mortgaging our children's future; we are mortgaging
our current prosperity. The President is proposing a gusher of new
debt, new taxes, and more spending.”
- U.S.
Representative Paul Ryan
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“The
most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the
government and I'm here to help.”
- President Ronald
Reagan
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“Politics
is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if
you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
-
President Ronald
Reagan
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"The
Declaration of Independence says we are endowed by our Creator
with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. Notice, unlike the welfare state it
doesn't guarantee happiness, it doesn't offer happiness stamps, it
doesn't suggest the government should pay therapy for those who
have not yet found happiness."
- Speaker of the U.S.
House of Representatives Newt
Gingrich
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“Our
work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity
to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that
will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word
power broadly, because even more important than military and
indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of
compassion, and the power of hope.”
– Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice
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“The
people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an
opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire
into reality.”
– Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice
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“If
human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as
possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather
that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their
capabilities.”
– First Lady Barbara
Bush
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“Some
people give time, some money, some their skills and connections,
some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something
to give.”
– First Lady Barbara
Bush
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“Giving
frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening
our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of
others.”
– First Lady Barbara
Bush
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“Dependency
is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time
to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the
poison it is.”
- Mitt
Romney
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“This
is a man [Barack Obama] who can give an entire speech about the
wars America is fighting, and never use the word “victory”
except when he’s talking about his own campaign. But when
the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the
crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and
those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot -
what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually
seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters
and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger …
take more of your money …”
- Alaska Governor
Sarah Palin