When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
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Change is never easy, but always possible.
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