Category: Leader
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.
Sam Houston
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The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher
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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
John Lewis
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
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A man without a vote is man without protection.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is ‘not ready’ to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.
Shirley Chisholm
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If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
Abraham Lincoln
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington