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• The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Country, Children, Home

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• A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Wings, Numbers, Groups

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• If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Mean, Socialist Countries

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Pension Fund Revolution”, p.11, Routledge

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• Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

  Thomas Szasz

  People, United States, Opiates

  "The Second Sin (Drugs)". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.

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• I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Yield, Support

  Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Joseph Choate, Francis F. Browne (2017). “LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate”, p.796, Madison & Adams Press

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• I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Reading, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.294, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Rights, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Arthur Bishop, United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson) (1971). “Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States; its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  White, Rights, France

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.503

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• Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Void, May

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Responsibility, Men, Years

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

  Bertrand Russell

  Russia, United States, Development

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.190, Psychology Press

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• We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.

  David Ben-Gurion

  United Nations, Ideals, Nations

  "Israel: The Watchman". content.time.com. August 16, 1948.

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• Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, People, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (1861). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.296

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• The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.

  Claude Debussy

  Worship, Christ

  "Claude Debussy: His Life and Works". Book by Leon Vallas, 1933.

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• If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.

  Aldo Leopold

  Fighting, United States, Opinion

  Letter to Wallace Grange, digicoll.library.wisc.edu. January 03, 1948.

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• I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Beautiful, Attitude, Years

  "Unbought and Unbossed". Book by Shirley Chisholm, 1970.

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• With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their lives resembles a little brook, whereas with the genius it is more like a mighty river into which all the little rivulets flow from afar; that is to say, the universal comprehension of genius vibrates to no experience in which all the individual moments have not been gathered up and stored.

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Rivers, Ordinary

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.124, Рипол Классик

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• I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old.

  Henry Clay

  Passion, Expression, Long

  Henry Clay (1842). “Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, of the Congress of the United States”, p.24

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• If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.

  William Powell

  Book, America, Jail

  "The Anarchist Cookbook" by William Powell, (Introduction), 1971.

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• Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

  Thucydides

  Ignorance, Reflection, Differences

  Thucydides, Ruth Finnegan “History of Greece”, Lulu.com

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• Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Men, Virtue

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.493, GENERAL PRESS

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• The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.

  Tod Wodicka

  Country, Night, Knowing

  Tod Wodicka (2008). “All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well”, p.87, Random House

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• At least 50% of all children in the United States are allergic to cow's milk, many undiagnosed. Dairy products are the leading cause of food allergy, often revealed by diarrhea, constipation, and fatigue. Many cases of asthma and sinus infections are reported to be relieved and even eliminated by cutting out dairy.

  Frank Oski

  Children, Cutting, United States

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• Thongs are the leading cause of pregnancy in the United States.

  Jenna Marbles

  Pregnancy, United States, Causes

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• Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Taken, August, President

  Proclamation 4311, 8 Sept. 1974

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