“ A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ”
- Charles Kuralt- Copy
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“ Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ”
- Richard Francis Burton- Copy
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“ Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ”
- Sir Richard Francis Burton- Copy
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“ I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV. ”
- Michael Lewis- Copy
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“ A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ”
- Alexander Hamilton- Copy
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“ National injustice is the surest road to national downfall. ”
- William Ewart Gladstone- Copy
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“ The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree. ”
- Bob Goodlatte- Copy
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“ What we want in Ireland is a National University which will bring students together and educate them upon national lines. ”
- Douglas Hyde- Copy
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“ The 16th Amendment gives the Federal government a direct claim on the lives of American citizens by enabling Congress to levy a direct income tax on individuals. Until the passage of the 16th amendment, the Supreme Court had consistently held that Congress had no power to impose an income tax. ”
- Ron Paul- Copy
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“ The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous. ”
- Richard Mitchell- Copy
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“ Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system. ”
- Wright C. Mills- Copy
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“ Consider the work of the association in reviving our ancient national game of caman, or hurling, and Gaelic football, has done more for Ireland than all the speeches of politicians for the last five years. And it is not alone that that splendid association revived for a time with vigour our national sport, but it revived also our national recollections, and the names of the various clubs through the country have perpetuated the memory of the great and good men and martyrs of Ireland. ”
- Douglas Hyde- Copy
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“ Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system. ”
- C. Wright Mills- Copy
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“ I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ”
- Bill Vaughan- Copy
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“ Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. ”
- William Proxmire- Copy
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“ All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diner's Club. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own? ”
- Johnny Carson- Copy
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“ No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time. ”
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr.- Copy
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“ It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. ”
- Eugene McCarthy- Copy
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“ I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
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