"I donâ€™t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law andÂ nothing more."

-- Thaddeus Stevens

“I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time.”

Source : "Good to be King: The Foundation of Our Constitutional Freedom". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.
“Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.”

Source : "Heinz Kerry: John Would Avoid War". www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2004.
“Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.”

Source : "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.
“When I tell somebody to do something I'm not going to get a lobbyist calling me the next day to say please don't do that even though it's good for America.”
“I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.”
“No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.”
“Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.”

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