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So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture.

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He who controls the past controls the future.

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You go to war with the Army you have. They

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It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

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I am not sure I am willing to do what it takes to become President of the United States

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

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