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The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.
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We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?
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My job is to stop Britain going red.
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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.
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When the speeches of Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George, the worst of the predators, the wild beasts of imperialism, are repeated here by Martov in the name of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, then I say to myself that we have to be on the alert and to realise that the Cheka is indispensable!
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The destiny of America was proclaimed in words of prophecy spoken by our first President in his first inaugural in 1789, words almost directed, it would seem, to this year of 1941: "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered deeply finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
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America began to suffer, and still suffers, from the tiresome task of reconciling the hostile and discordant elements it inherited from the despotic and perverse colonizer, and the imported methods and ideas which have been retarding logical government because they are lacking in local realities. Thrown out of gear for three centuries by a power which denied men the right to use their reason, the continent disregarded or closed its ears to the unlettered throngs that helped bring it to redemption, and embarked on a government based on reason, a reason belonging to all for the common good, not the university brand of reason over the peasant brand. The problem of independence did not lie in a change of forms but in change of spirit.
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A famous Frenchman once said, 'War has become far too important to entrust to the generals'. Today, business, I think, should be saying: 'Politics have become far too important to entrust to the politicians'.
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It seldom helps to wonder how a statesman of one generation would surmount the crisis of another. A statesman deals with concrete difficulties, with things which must be done from day to day. Not often can he frame conscious patterns for the far off future. But the fullness of the stature of Lincoln's nature and the fundamental conflict which events forced upon his Presidency invite us ever to turn to him for help. For the issue which he restated here at Gettysburg seventy five years ago will be the continuing issue before this Nation so long as we cling to the purposes for which the Nation was founded: to preserve under the changing conditions of each generation a people's government for the people's good.
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