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"the islamic republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil" »Ayatullah Khamenei
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"the most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment." »Dave Barry
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"the first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached." »William Safire
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"the taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." »Ronald Reagan
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"As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved." »Dave Barry
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"republic. I like the sound of the word" »John Wayne
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"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men." »Gerald R. Ford
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"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal." »William Allen White
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"the state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels
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"the hopes of the republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's republic of China)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." »Benjamin Franklin
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"the knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, islamic, Russian and British empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies all lost their leadership position to newer companies." »Med Jones
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"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the republic is destroyed." »Abraham Lincoln
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"the knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, islamic, Russian and British empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies lost their leadership position to newer companies faster than their predecessors" »Med Jones
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"the true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less." »Franklin P. Adams
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"My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights." »Ronald Reagan
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"the death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)" »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. the instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." »Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
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"It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... the war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. the object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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"Economics Teacher In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone Anyone... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone Anyone the tariff bill the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Which, anyone Raised or lowered... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work Anyone Anyone know the effects It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is Class Anyone Anyone Anyone seen this before the Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980 Anyone Something-d-o-o economics. Voodoo economics." »Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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