Ronald Reagan on Nuclear Waste
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“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”
–Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan on American Change
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“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
–Ronald Reagan
Winston Churchill on Fortitude
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“Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
–Winston Churchill
Ronald Reagan on Moral Courage
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“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.”
–Ronald Reagan
Elbert Hubbard on Life
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“Don’t take life too seriously; you’ll never get out of it alive.”
–Elbert Hubbard
Aristotle on Flattery
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“A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.”
–Aristotle
Winston Churchill on Fanatics
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“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
–Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein on Wisdom
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“Before God we are all equally wise — and equally foolish.”
–Albert Einstein
Heart on Sarah Palin
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“Sarah Palin’s views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song ‘Barracuda’ no longer be used to promote her image. The song ‘Barracuda’ was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The ‘barracuda’ represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there’s irony in Republican strategists’ choice to make use of it there.”
–Nancy Wilson of Heart
Nathan Hale on Patriotism
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“I only regret that I have but one life to give my country.”
–Nathan Hale
Gloria Steinem on Sarah Palin
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“Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton.”
–Gloria Steinem
Atticus Finch on Courage
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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
–Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
Woody Allen on Fidelity
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“I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.”
–Woody Allen, Manhattan (1979)
Patrick Henry on Liberty
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“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
–Patrick Henry
Pericles on Poverty
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“A confession of poverty is disgrace to no man; no effort to avoid it is disgrace indeed.”
–Pericles
John Adams on Government
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“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
–John Adams
Ronald Reagan on Government
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“Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
–Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy on Liberty
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“We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
“This much we pledge—and more.”
–John F. Kennedy (Inaugural Address)
Calvin Coolidge on Honor
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“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
–Calvin Coolidge
Winston Churchill on Capitalism vs. Socialism
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
–Winston Churchill
