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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrat

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. – Wendell Willkie

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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. – Wendell Willkie

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Freedom
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Wendell Willkie
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. – Wendell Willkie

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work
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Wendell Willkie
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. – Wendell Willkie

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Freedom
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Wendell Willkie
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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We just put General Motors in the hands of people who cant even run our own government. – Glenn Beck

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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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We believe, as our founders did, that the pursuit of happiness depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government. – Paul Ryan

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Of all the pretenses of the formal party season, the hardest, I find, is pretending that your clothes fit. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much – the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me. – Eliot Spitzer

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Ive always had great faith in people. – Wayne Newton

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My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. – Rodney Dangerfield

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