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You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough decisions. And you've got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.
Antonio Villaraigosa
You
Disagree
Tough
Think
Willing
Tough Decisions
Take
Make
Got
Friends
Decisions
Them
Your
Right
We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.
Arlen Specter
Humanity
Simple
Tolerance
Brotherhood
Holy
Wars
Need
Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.
Avigdor Lieberman
War
Peace
Strong
Be Strong
Those
Want
Should
Who
Prepare
We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.
Ayanna Pressley
Achievement
Racism
Result
Systemic
Must
Economic
Like
Policies
Inequality
Issues
Acknowledge
Manmade
Gap
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
B. R. Ambedkar
Freedom
You
Liberty
Law
Achieve
Long
Whatever
Provided
Avail
Social
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
B. R. Ambedkar
Justice
Rights
Political
Revolution
Conviction
Enough
Thorough
Importance
Discontent
Social
Successful
Required
Profound
Necessity
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
Barbara Jordan
Future
People
Vision
Strictly
Press
Release
Ourselves
Must
Slogans
More
Provide
Accountable
Than
Officials
Hold
Public
Required
Public Officials
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
Barry Goldwater
Good
Christian
Every
Think
Ought
Kick
Right
Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.
Ben Quayle
Work
You
Yourself
Try
Values
Somebody
Be Yourself
Just Be
Think
Stay
Stay True
Abreast
Perfect
Perfect Person
True
Involved
Because
Issues
Office
Person
Persona
Going
Just
Just Be Yourself
Public
Really
Should
Your
Public Office
Core
Core Values
I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.
Benigno Aquino III
Life
Good
Son
Simple
Citizen
Be True
Parents
Country
Caring
Honorable
Our
Brother
Had
True
Goal
Good Citizen
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
Benito Mussolini
History
People
Insane
Insane People
Mainly
Saints
The History Of
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Benito Mussolini
Every
Anarchist
Baffled
Dictator
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
Benjamin Franklin
Character
Bird
Wish
Country
Own
Living
Honestly
Our
Bad
Moral
Moral Character
My Own
Had
He
Part
Bald
Does
Been
His
Get
Representative
Chosen
Eagle
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin
First
Those
Easier
Follow
Suppress
Than
Much
Satisfy
Desire
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin
Faith
World
Men
Saved
Affairs
Want
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin Franklin
Wealth
Rich
Sick
Only
Feel
Impotence
Fully
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin
Morning
Wake Up
Every
Nine
Paper
Obituary
Name
Look
Wake
Up
Grab
Get
Then
Page
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
Purse
Take
No-One
Head
Him
His
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin
Nature
Eats
General
Since
Improvement
Diet
Mankind
Much
Requires
Cookery
Twice
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin
Having
Shame
Been
Being
Ashamed
Poor
There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.
Benjamin Franklin
Best
Man
Natural
Stronger
Profit
He
Making
His
Than
Cannot
Natural Right
Produce
Lands
Right
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
Respect
People
Political
Every
Other
Our
Thoroughly
Circumstances
Easy
More
Perhaps
Reads
His
Than
Improvement
Any
Heaven
Leisure
Information
Conversations
Acquiring
Us
Interests
Among
Enlightened
Every Man
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin
War
Follies
Mischievous
Very
Expensive
Wars
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Benjamin Franklin
Mind
Every
Find
Since
Make
Enables
Convenient
Reason
Reasonable
Creature
Thing
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Benjamin Franklin
Buy
Long
Thou
Shalt
Thy
Sell
Necessities
Need
It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
Bernadette Devlin
People
Long
Before
Final
Horrors
Parliament
Discovered
Letting
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