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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Preach
Fighting
See
He
Like
Him
Were
Hear
Bees
Act
It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
Abraham Lincoln
World
Others
Some
Proportion
Without
Labor
Happened
Fruits
Ages
Large
Enjoyed
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
God
Great
Will
Party
Claims
Must
Both
Wrong
Contests
Accordance
May
Act
Each
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama
Work
Today
World
Better
Tears
Earnest
Took
Our
Bit
Sure
Making
Leave
Lot
Blood
Begin
Than
Begun
Get
Just
Just A Little Bit
Where
Children
Little
Little Bit
Sweat
Inhabit
What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
Barack Obama
Work
You
People
Work Hard
Ahead
Simple
Opportunity
Old
Responsibility
Party
Nation
Young
Rich
Believe
I Believe
Take
Get
Regardless
Region
Race
Poor
Notion
Hard
Belief
Unites
Profound
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack Obama
Friendship
Black
Active
Carefully
Structural
More
Poets
Marxist
Students
Performance
Mistaken
Foreign
Feminists
Friends
Sellout
Politically
Being
Avoid
Chose
Professors
Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
Barack Obama
Kindness
Good
Democracy
You
Travel
Vision
Humor
Citizen
Year
Our
Those
I Can
Promise
Voices
Inspired
Longer
Fairness
Brand
Office
America
Hold
Far
Grit
Hard
Helped
Now
Right
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
God
World
Police
American
Commission
I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.
Donald Trump
Rights
Simple
Would
Would-Be
Sexual
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act
Idea
Like
Ban
Discrimination
Amending
Straightforward
Act
Orientation
Include
Based
Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.
Donald Trump
Me
You
Conflict
Sometimes
Aggressive
Everybody
Settlement
Weakness
Solution
Through
Come
Also
Likes
Make
Sort
End
Up
Get
Done
Oftentimes
Order
In The End
Right
Things
Need
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Day
Peace
People
World
Some
Give
Leaders
Genuinely
Going
Want
Them
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government
Constitution
States
Rules
Marvelously
Written
Most
Proved
Itself
Elastic
United
Ever
United States
Compilation
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
You
Yourself
Got
Get
Going
Just
Want
Ask
Sufficient
Things
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War
Beginning
Differences
Settling
Thoroughly
More
Brutal
Between
Method
Impractical
Governments
End
Yes
Than
Want
Inhuman
Wars
I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Christian
Democrat
Am
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government
Class
People
Insist
Destinies
Class Consciousness
General
Putting
Help
Who
Consciousness
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
Franklin Pierce
Trifling
More
Animated
Frequently
Protracted
Subject
Discussion
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
George W. Bush
Time
Leadership
Character
Me
Listening
Honor
Country
Duty
From Time To Time
Means
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington
Lost
Worst
Worst Kind
Kind
Bad
Seed
Only
Robbery
Passes
Your
Preparations
Season
Away
Suffers
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S Truman
Best
Advice
Way
Out
Find
Best Way
Give
Advise
Children
Want
Them
Then
Your
Found
The buck stops here!
Harry S Truman
Buck
Stops
Here
The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S Truman
World
Prison
White
White House
Finest
House
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
James A. Garfield
Heart
Old
Wrinkles
Our
Must
Spirit
Brow
Never
Written
Them
Should
Grow
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison
Degree
Men
Power
Ought
Having
Certain
Certain Degree
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
James Madison
Alone
People
Free
Free People
Permanently
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James Madison
Education
Youth
Parents
Possess
Carried
He
Talents
His
Afford
Expense
Whenever
Cannot
Ascertained
Which
Public
Should
Forward
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