Members of The United States Congress
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“Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House, Members of the Senate, my fellow Americans, all I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
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—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
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—Marshall McLuhan (19111980)
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—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
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—Walt Whitman (18191892)
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—Grover Cleveland (18371908)