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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.
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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.
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I said one day that Dole had a temper, and he got madder than hell. He has one. He has a mean one.
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You don't need to be 'straight' to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
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We are on the Colorado...that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river.
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
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I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up.... He has no discipline.
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I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.'
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I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
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A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
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I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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I told Johnson and old colleagues on Capitol Hill that we had two clear choices. Either win the [Vietnam] war in a relatively short time, say within a year, or pull out all our troops and come home.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
January 2, 1909
Died:
May 29, 1998
(aged 89)
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