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ADDAMS, Jane

Jane Addams

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BELLOW, Saul

Saul Bellow

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CitationContextSource LinkCitation “A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.” ~Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States “Our Nation’s Past and Future” (15 July 1976) Presidential candidacy acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY; transcript online via The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum, ‘Acceptance Speech,' www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov Context Extended excerpt [Presidential candidate nomination acceptance speech]: “It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than the humblest citizen, so that we can end once and for all a double standard of justice. A

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KISSINGER, Henry

CitationMisquotesContextSource LinkCitation “A country that demands moral perfection of itself as a test of its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” ~Henry Kissinger, German-American statesman “Reflections on Containment” (May/June 1994) Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 3, p. 130; online via JSTOR [subscription service] www.jstor.org Misquotes Misquote notes: A number of sources attribute a paraphrased version of Kissinger’s quote to his original Foreign Affairs article: Actual - “A country that demands moral perfection of itself as a test of its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Misquote - “A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Source note: The