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Speech in the U.S. Senate (2017)
                                    
1860s, First Inaugural Address (1861)
                                        
                                        Thank you, Mr. President. I yield the floor. 
Speech in the U.S. Senate (2017)
                                    
To My People (July 4, 1973)
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
                                        
                                        (20th March 1824) Metrical Tales. Tale IV.— The Troubadour 
The London Literary Gazette, 1824
                                    
                                        
                                        Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLR4sCgvnc 
Context: But now, let’s give each other a chance. 
It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric.
To lower the temperature. 
To see each other again. 
To listen to each other again.
To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy. 
We are not enemies. We are Americans.
                                    
Source: A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
                                        
                                        June 22, 2016, speech, quoted in  Nobody brings the crazy quite like Trump http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nobody-brings-the-crazy-quite-like-trump/2016/06/22/74ba5692-38bd-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html?utm_term=.8ca4d5443e7b Dana Milbank, Washington Post, June 22, 2016 
2010s, 2016, June
                                    
“We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.”
Source: A Song for Arbonne
“We must know our enemy, at least a little.”
                                        
                                        “That’s dangerous,” Prufrax said, almost instinctively.
“Yes, it is. What you know, you cannot hate.” 
Source: Short fiction, Hardfought (1983), p. 63
                                    
 
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                        