The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect in execution, the labors of many.
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If the tobacco officials had really changed, ... they would not have waited until Minnesota secured a court order to mandate the documents' release, and if tobacco officials had really changed, they would not perpetuate their cover-up by continuing to block our efforts to uncover 39,000 documents containing their deepest, darkest secrets.
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We hear every single day how terrible suicides are, automobile accidents are, how terrible cocaine and heroin are, murders, homicides, all of them. You put them all together, they don't come close to what this drug nicotine combined in tobacco does. Four hundred and forty thousand people a year, the equivalent of three 747s dropping out of the sky every single day of our lives. It's time we changed this folks,
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The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
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