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“I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.”

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Book:Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
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“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy
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“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln
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“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln
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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

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Author:Ronald Reagan
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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

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Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
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“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.”

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Book:African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist
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