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• Voting is the first duty of a democracy. -- Lyndon B. Johnson, former U.S. Preside
• The following appeared in a memo from the president of a chain of cheese stores located throughout the United States.
  "For many years all the stores in our chain have stocked a wide variety of both domestic and imported cheeses....
• The following appeared as part of a recommendation made by a faculty member to the president of a large university.
  "Never once in our 150-year history as a university have we clarified our objectives....
• America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.
  -- President John F. Kennedy The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us....
• Oh no, you don't want my signature. I'm unemployed.
  I'm out of a job. -- Former president George Bush to an autograph seeker....
• The ACLU has stood foursquare against the recurring tides of hysteria that from time to time threaten freedoms everyhere.
  .. Indeed, it is difficult to appreciate how far our freedoms might have eroded had it not been for the Union's valiant representation in the courts of the constitutional rights of people of all persuasions, no matter how unpopular or even despised by the majority they were at the time....
• The following appeared in a memorandum to faculty from the academic vice president of Waymarsh University.
  "So that we can better accomplish Waymarsh University's academic goals, we should adopt the job-opportunity (job-op) program offered at Plateau Technical College and strongly encourage all students at Waymarsh to participate in it....
• I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
  -- Vice President (former senator, former congressman, etc..) Dan Quayle...
• The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president?
  What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?...