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Bush, George W. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2005, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Truman, Harry S. Radio Report to the American People on the Potsdam Conference. 9 Aug. 1945, Washington, DC, USA.

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Edison, Thomas. Quoted in "Edison in His Laboratory" by Martin André Rosanoff. Harper's Monthly, Sept. 1932.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1933, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, March 4, 1933." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Sontag, Susan "Against Interpretation." Against Interpretation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Andrew Johnston. 18 Apr. 1846.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "To Andrew Johnston, April 18, 1846." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear.

Rudy Giuliani

Said in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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Giuliani, Rudolph. On the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. 11 Sept. 2001, New York, NY, USA.

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Pollock, Jackson. Interviewed by Selden Rodman. c. 1956.

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Jackson, Andrew. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1833, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Grant, Ulysses S. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1869, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

John Lewis

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Lewis, John [@repjohnlewis]. "We may not have chose the time, but the time has chosen us." Twitter, 11 July 2016, 4:21 p.m., twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/752505298326319104

This is a beautiful country.

John Brown

John Brown's last words before his execution.

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Brown, John. Last written words. 2 Dec. 1859.

Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.

Don McLean

American Pie

On the death of Buddy Holly.

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McLean, Don. "American Pie." American Pie. United Artists Records, 1971.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Clinton, William J. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1993, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Twain, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880, ch. 43.

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Twain, Mark. "A Tramp Abroad." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount, Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 43.

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Madison, James. Letter to Henry Lee. 13 April 1790.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 16.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams. Library of America, 1983, ch. 16.

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Bush, George W. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2001, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.