Wilbert Rideau Quotes
Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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Trump is an anathema to America's democracy and values.
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My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzy
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When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.
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This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.
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Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.
