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• It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, Loss, Ideas

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• The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Bible, God, Country

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• America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

  Max Lerner

  4th Of July, Ideas, America

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• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  "Cavalry Journal", September 1933.

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• Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

  Nathan Hale

  4th Of July, Independence, Arms

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• We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  4th Of July, Opportunity, Race

  "The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

  Aberjhani

  Justice, Humanity, Done

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• Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

  Art Linkletter

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Men, Innocent Man

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, People

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  Barack Obama

  Justice For All, Liberty, Who We Are

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.

  William J. Clinton

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Community

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.235, Best Books on

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• To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

  William J. Clinton

  Reality, Revolution, Borders

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.135, Best Books on

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• I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.

  William J. Clinton

  Opportunity, Groups, Shots

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1057, Best Books on

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• I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.

  George H. W. Bush

  Funny, Strong, Stupid

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• It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Political, Good Questions, Answers

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• General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Europe, Presidential

  Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, delivered 12 June 1987, West Berlin

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• I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That's how I saw it, and see it still.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Ocean, Blessed

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Blessing, Common Vision

  Jimmy Carter's Farewell Address, January 14, 1981.

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• For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Prayer, Pride, Men

  Telephone Talk With Apollo 11 Astronauts on the Moon, delivered 20 July 1969, Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Healing, Action

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974”, p.627, Best Books on

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• The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Honor, Peacemaker

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969".

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• If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Humorous, Men, Thinking

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• It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fall, Always Trying, Becoming

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stars, Sleep, America

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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