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Former U S Senator Inspirational Quotes (241)

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Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.
Blanche Lincoln
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The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Margaret Chase Smith
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Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.
Bill Bradley
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Tis not, 'my country right or wrong' tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'
Carl Schurz
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I am running against no one. I'd like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It's a real challenge, and that's one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Margaret Chase Smith
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I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.
Bill Bradley
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
Larry Craig
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The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.
Robert Toombs
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There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.
Frank B. Kellogg
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People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.
Tom Daschle
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Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.
Elihu Root
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The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
Elihu Root
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Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate.
Paul Douglas
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Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.
Robert Toombs
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In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.
Elihu Root
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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
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About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.
Elihu Root
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Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.
John C. Stennis
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I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.
Frank B. Kellogg
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One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.
Margaret Chase Smith
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Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
Elihu Root
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Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.
Knute Nelson
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It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
Knute Nelson
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The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.
Bill Bradley
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