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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.

Let us also reflect on the honorable service of our men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces currently serving our country overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world.

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.