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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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Milton, John. "To My Lord Fairfax." Letters of State Written by Mr. John Milton. London, 1694, l. 10.

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Milton, John. "On the Lord General Fairfax." John Milton: The Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 10.

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Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 1. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1776.

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Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

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

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The Rock. Directed by Michael Bay, Hollywood Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1996.

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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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Hume, David. "Of the Standard of Taste." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1758, pt. 1, no. 23.

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Hume, David. "Of the Standard of Taste." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 1, no. 23.

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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.

Don't be in a hurry. You'll miss the best parts in life.

Around the World in 80 Days

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Around the World in 80 Days. Directed by Michael Anderson, Michael Todd Company, 1956.

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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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"In Camelot." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Terence Winter, directed by Steve Buscemi, season 5, episode 7, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2004.

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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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Blake, William. "The Clod and the Pebble." Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1794.

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Blake, William. "The Clod & the Pebble." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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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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Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992.

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Darwin, Charles. "Notebook B." Transmutation of Species. 1837-1838, p. 231.

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Darwin, Charles. "Transmutation of Species: Notebook B [1837-1838]." Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836–1844, transcribed and edited by David Kohn. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 2, ch. 9.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 9.

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