State Of The Union Address

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Edward R. Murrow:
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

 

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Henry David Thoreau:
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison

 

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John Adams:
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

 

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I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided.
Richard M. Nixon

 

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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)

 

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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

-Frederick Douglass

 

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The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.

-Anon

 

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

 

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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."
Dale Carnegie

 

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"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round."
James Corbett