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    Samuel Adams
    “It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
    ― Samuel Adams
    tags: activism, minority
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    James Madison
    “If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
    ― James Madison
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    Will Rogers
    “I am not a member of any organized political party — I am a Democrat. ”
    ― Will Rogers
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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
    ― Lyndon B. Johnson
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    Barry M. Goldwater
    “as the public grows more and more cynical, the politician feels less and less compelled to take his promises seriously.”
    ― Barry M. Goldwater, Conscience of a Conservative
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    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
    ― Georg Hegel
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: american-revolution
    263 likes

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    Charles de Gaulle
    “Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.”
    ― Charles de Gaulle
    tags: education, life-philosophy, professionalism
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    Charles de Gaulle
    “It is better to have a bad method than to have none.”
    ― Charles de Gaulle
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    Alexander Hamilton
    “Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.”
    ― Alexander Hamilton
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    John Jay
    “Those who own the country ought to govern it.”
    ― John Jay
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    Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette
    “Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.”
    ― Marquis De Lafayette
    tags: american-revolution, battle, humanity, inspiration, liberty, revolution
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    C.S. Lewis
    “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “When Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: “This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm: The Second World War, Volume 1
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    “There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.”
    ― Mark Hanna
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
    4571 likes

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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: forgiveness, vigilance
    1151 likes

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    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [Remarks on the first
    “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

    [Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: peacefulness, political-rights, protest, revolution, violence
    946 likes

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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: civic-duty, civic-responsibility, inaugural-address, politics
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

    [Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: inspirational, prayer, strength
    344 likes

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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: endurance, ideas, inspirational
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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.”
    ― Lyndon B. Johnson
    tags: humor-president
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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved -- the Great Society.”
    ― Lyndon B. Johnson
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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “He’s [Gerald Ford] a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off.”
    ― Lyndon B. Johnson
    tags: gerald-ford
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    Barry M. Goldwater
    “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”
    ― Barry Goldwater
    tags: conservatism, extremism, freedom, moderation, republican, speech, vice, virtue
    71 likes

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    Sigmund Freud
    “What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
    2892 likes

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    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: future
    2779 likes



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