Election Day ying and yang

Election Day is here. Now we wait…

To get you through the day, I want to share 10 American quotes. I’ve paired each one with a companion Trump quote:

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1. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” — Nathan Hale, an American spy who was executed at age 21 by the British in 1776

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   “Grab ‘em by the pussy.” — Donald Trump

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2. “I have not yet begun to fight.” — Captain John Paul Jones, when he was asked to surrender as he and his crew engaged in a desperate battle with a British frigate off the northern coast of England during the American Revolution

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   “It’s amazing. I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier. Women’s vaginas are potential landmines. There’s some real danger there.” — Donald Trump, telling Howard Stern how he avoided STDs when he was single in the late 1990s.

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3. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his first Inaugural Address, 1933

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   “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections. They’ll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American Dream.The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.” — Donald Trump

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4. “When people show you who they are, believe them.” — Maya Angelou

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   “You had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.” — Donald Trump, about the Charlottesville white surpremacist rally in 2017

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5. “With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." — Abraham Lincoln in his second Inaugural Address, 1865

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   “Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK? Let's see how she feels about it, you know when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, on Liz Cheney

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6. “It does not require many words to speak the truth.” Chief Joseph

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   “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” said Trump. “They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” — Donald Trump

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7. “Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.” — Senator Margaret Chase Smith

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   “We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that is what this is all about. And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal. …

   You will have an illegitimate president. That is what you will have, and we can’t let that happen. These are the facts that you won’t hear from the fake news media. It’s all part of the suppression effort. They don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to talk about it. …

   We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” — Donald Trump

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8. “Some men see things as they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things that never were and ask, "Why not?" — Senator Robert Kennedy 

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   “My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka. She’s beautiful.”

   When Howard Stern says, “Can I say this? A piece of ass.

   “Yeah.” Donald Trump replies.

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9. “May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.”  President John Adams, a blessing that was carved into the State Dining Room mantel in 1945 from a letter he wrote to Abigail Adams in 1800

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   “I went to the World War II cemetery. I don’t want to go in there because they’re a bunch of losers and suckers.” — Donald Trump

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10. “You can observe a lot just by watching.” — Yogi Berra

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    “The US is a garbage can for the rest of the world.” — Donald Trump

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