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"I believe everyody in the world should have guns. citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string." »Scott Adams
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"Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens." »Woodrow Wilson
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"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." »Hubert Humphrey
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"To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent." »Robert Copeland
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"The world is proof that God is a committee." »Bob Stokes
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"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock." »Arthur Goldberg
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"A camel is a horse designed by committee." »Sir Alec Issigonis
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"There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee." »Lester J. Pourciau
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"A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members." »David Coblitz
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"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." »Sir Barnett Cocks
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"If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes." »H. Ross Perot
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"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour." »Elbert Hubbard
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"What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." »Richard Harkness
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"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." »George Will
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"Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings." »George Will
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"We are all citizens of history." »Clifton Paul Fadiman
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"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State." »Roger B. Taney
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"The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens." »Wendell Willkie
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"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." »George Jean Nathan
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"The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class." »Aristotle
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"committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done." »Fred Allen
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"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other." »Voltaire
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"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other." »Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire
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"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their.s" »Elbert Hubbard
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"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." »Margaret Mead
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"Lloyd Hey, I guess they're right senior citizens although slow and dangerous behind the wheel--can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back, don't you go dying on me" »Dumb & Dumber
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