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I have got such a bully pulpit!

Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt's expressing his view of the presidency.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. The Outlook. 27 Feb. 1909.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to James Madison. 6 Sept. 1789.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "James Madison, Sept. 6, 1789." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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Bush, George W. Speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. 1 May 2003.

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Hamilton, Alexander and James Madison [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 20: The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union." New York Packet, 11 Dec. 1787.

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Hamilton, Alexander and James Madison. "No. 20: Conclusion: such confederations wrong in theory, violent in practice.--Madison (and Hamilton). The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Gates, Bill and Collins Hemingway. Business @ the Speed of Thought. Grand Central Publishing, 1999.

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

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

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Jefferson, Thomas [published anonymously]. Notes on the State of Virginia. Paris: Philippe Denis Pierres, 1785, query 17.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia, edited by Frank Shuffelton. Penguin Classics, 1998, query 17.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Holmes. 22 Apr. 1820.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "John Holmes, April 22, 1820." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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Twain, Mark, [published anonymously]. "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc." Harper's Magazine. New York, Apr. 1895-Apr. 1896.

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Twain, Mark. "Translator's Preface." Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Dover Publications, 2002.

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Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Rock, Chris. Bigger & Blacker. HBO, 10 July 1999.

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Washington, Booker T. "Up from Slavery." The Outlook, 1900.

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Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. Dover Publications, 1995.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

New England Reformers

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "New England Reformers." American Anti-Slavery Society meeting. 3 Mar. 1844, Amory Hall, Boston, MA, USA.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "New England Reformers (1844)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Mrs. Foote. 2 Dec. 1887.

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Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. Viking Press, 1958, ch. 11.

You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows.

Bob Dylan

Subterranean Homesick Blues

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Dylan, Bob. Subterranean Homesick Blues. Columbia Records, 1965.

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United States Constitution. Amend. 6.

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The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Written by Delegates of The Constitutional Convention. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 6.

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Thoreau, Henry David. Journal entry. 25 July 1839.

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Thoreau, Henry David. The Heart of Thoreau's Journals, edited by Odell Shepard. Dover Publications, 1961.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Francis Wayles Eppes. 21 May 1816.

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Jefferson, Thomas. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. Vol. 10, Princeton University Press, 2004.

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Twain, Mark. "Extracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms." The Niagara Book. Buffalo: Underhill and Nichols, 1893.

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Twain, Mark. "Extracts from Adam's Diary." The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain, edited by Lawrence Berkove. Modern Library, 2004.