You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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We’re not a democracy.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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