Quotes To Remember

EDITOR'S NOTE: Some quotes may be paraphrased... just a bit.

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Give me liberty, or give me death.
--Patrick Henry

Buy health insurance, or go to jail.
--Barack Obama

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Despotism can only exist in darkness.
--James Madison

You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.
--Barack Obama

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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'.
--Herbert Hoover

Never let a good crisis go to waste.
--Barack Obama

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If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
--George Washington

I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way.
--Barack Obama

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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.
--Thomas Paine

I will remove one or two brigades a month, and get all of our combat troops out of Iraq within 16 months... Let there be no doubt: I will lose this war.
--Barack Obama

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We will accept nothing less than full victory!
--Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months.
--Barack Obama

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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
--Abraham Lincoln

The Warren Court wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed.
--Barack Obama

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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
--Thomas Jefferson

I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.
--Barack Obama

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Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
--Francis Scott Key

I decided I won't wear that flag pin on my chest any more.
--Barack Obama

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America is great because she is good.
--Alexis de Tocqueville

I'm going to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great.
--Barack Obama

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One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.
--Ronald Reagan

As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.
--Barack Obama

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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
--John Adams

We are God's partners in matters of life and death.
--Barack Obama

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
--Nathan Hale

I never regret anything... I just lie about it or change the story.
--Barack Obama

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After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
--George W. Bush

I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors... who specialize in terrorism.
--Barack Obama

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I have never been proud of America my entire adult life.
--Michelle Obama

Michelle is just great, isn't she?
--Barack Obama

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Not God Bless America... God DAMN America.
--Reverend Jeremiah Wright

Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.
--Barack Obama

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