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Our Youth Can Not Understand Why Society Chooses To Criminalize A Behavior With So Little Visible Ill Effect Or Adverse Social Impact... These Young People Have Jumped The Fence And Found No Cliff. And The Disrespect For The Possession Laws Fosters A Disrespect For Laws And The System In General... On Top Of This Is The Distinct Impression Among The Youth That Some Police May Use The Marihuana Laws To Arrest People They Don't Like For Other Reasons, Whether It Be Their Politics, Their Hair Style Or Their Ethnic Background.

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Richard M. Nixon

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Our Youth Can Not Understand Why Society Chooses To Criminalize A Behavior With So Little Visible Ill Effect Or Adverse Social Impact... These Young People Have Jumped The Fence And Found No Cliff. And The Disrespect For The Possession Laws Fosters A Disrespect For Laws And The System In General... On Top Of This Is The Distinct Impression Among The Youth That Some Police May Use The Marihuana Laws To Arrest People They Don't Like For Other Reasons, Whether It Be Their Politics, Their Hair Style Or Their Ethnic Background.

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Restoring Nature To Its Natural State Is A Cause Beyond Party And Beyond Factions. It Has Become A Common Cause Of All The People Of This Country. It Is A Cause Of Particular Concern To Young Americans, Because They More Than We Will Reap The Grim Consequences Of Our Failure To Act On Programs Which Are Needed Now If We Are To Prevent Disaster Later.

The Soviet Union Began By Banishing God. The United States Began As A Community Of People Who Wanted To Worship God As They Chose. . . Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone. Those In The United States Whose Desire To Create A Strictly Secular Society Is As Strong As Lenin's Was Should Study This Cold War Lesson Closely. Communism Was Defeated By An Alliance Spearheaded By 'one Nation Under God.'

No Words Can Describe The Depths Of My Regret And Pain At The Anguish My Mistakes Over Watergate Have Caused The Nation And The Presidency - A Nation I So Deeply Love And An Institution I So Greatly Respect.

In His Heart Everyone Knows That The Only People Who Get Rich From The "get Rich Quick" Books Are Those Who Write Them.

Nothing Is More Priceless And More Worthy Of Preservation Than The Rich Array Of Animal Life With Which Our Country Has Been Blessed. It Is A Many-faceted Treasure, Of Value To Scholars, Scientists, And Nature Lovers Alike, And It Forms A Vital Part Of The Heritage We All Share As Americans.

... Member Countries Shall Take Necessary Action And/or Shall Establish Negotiations, Individually Or In Groups, With The Oil Companies With A View To Adopting Ways And Means To Offset Any Adverse Effects On The Per Barrel Real Income Of Member Countries Resulting From The International Monetary Developments As Of 15th August 1971.

If I Had Feelings, I Probably Wouldn’t Have Even Survived.

But It's Not Just The Ratty Part Of Town. The Upper Class In San Francisco Is That Way. The Bohemian Grove, Which I Attend From Time To Time - It Is The Most Faggy Goddamned Thing You Could Ever Imagine, With That San Francisco Crowd. I Can't Shake Hands With Anybody From San Francisco.

By Taking This Action, I Hope That I Will Have Hastened The Start Of The Healing.

The Ability To Be Cool, Confident, And Decisive In Crisis Is Not An Inherited Characteristic But Is The Direct Result Of How Well The Individual Has Prepared Himself For The Battle.

The Press Is The Enemy.

What We Have Done With The American Indian Is Its Way As Bad As What We Imposed On The Negroes. We Took A Proud And Independent Race And Virtually Destroyed Them. We Have To Find Ways To Bring Them Back Into Decent Lives In This Country.

There Will Be No Whitewash In The White House.

During The Prince's Visit, King Timahoe Will Be Referred To Only As Timahoe, Since It Would Be Inappropriate For The Prince To Be Outranked By A Dog.

I Have Impeached Myself By Resigning.

The Easiest Period In A Crisis Situation Is Actually The Battle Itself. The Most Difficult Is The Period Of Indecision - Whether To Fight Or Run Away. And The Most Dangerous Period Is The Aftermath. It Is Then, With All His Resources Spent And His Guard Down, That An Individual Must Watch Out For Dulled Reactions And Faulty Judgment.

People Are Persuaded By Reason, But Moved By Emotion; [the Leader] Must Both Persuade Them And Move Them.

Sure There Are Dishonest Men In Local Government. But There Are Dishonest Men In National Government Too.

The Greatness Comes Not When Things Go Always Good For You. But The Greatness Comes When You're Really Tested, When You Take Some Knocks, Some Disappointments, When Sadness Comes. Because Only If You've Been In The Deepest Valley Can You Ever Know How Magnificent It Is To Be On The Highest Mountain.

Because The Public Lands Belong To All Americans, This 1872 Mining Act Should Be Repealed.

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