Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.


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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have...
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Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only bec...
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There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know...
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A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very...
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People don't start wars, governments do.
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No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
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If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are...
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I know in my heart that man is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And...
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabine...
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I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an ant...
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Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in...
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Facts are stupid things.
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Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the ...
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Don't be afraid to see what you see.
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Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formida...
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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever...
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope...
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To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cro...
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Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And e...
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