You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

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If you have never failed you have never lived.

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