I. Frost's Selected Quotations

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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
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Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
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Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them. I believe this could happen under the ERA.
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If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. [on the question of silencing campus radicals, 1970]
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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
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It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
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I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
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The United States has much to offer the third world war [in a speech on what the U.S. had to offer the Third World. He repeated this error nine times in the same speech.]
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Well, I learned a lot....You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries. [Speech following his tour of South America.]
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You know, your nose looks just like Danny Thomas's [to Lebanese Foreign Minister, during a briefing on the realities of the Middle East conflict].
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Maybe we should not have humored them...[when they asked to live on reservations]. Maybe we should have said, "No, come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us." [During a trip to Moscow, when asked about U.S. treatment of Native Americans.]
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My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes [before he was going to make a radio broadcast, unaware that the mike was on].
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
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There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
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There is today in the United States as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge.
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A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?