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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

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Jack Kemp
Age: 73 †
Born: 1935
Born: July 13
Died: 2009
Died: May 2
American Football Player
Businessperson
Canadian Football Player
Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
Politician
LA
California
Jack French Kemp
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Defeatism
Councils
Timidity
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
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Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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