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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Vote, Voting, American

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal

Character, Everything, Solitude

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain

Congress, Facts, Class

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
Mark Twain

American, Congress, Class

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P. J. O'Rourke

Children, Everybody, Knows

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

Government, Democracy, Others

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Temptation, Resist

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

Women, Men, Lonely

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain

Sleeping, Exercise, Taken

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Mark Twain

Truth, Nothing, Wrong

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

Real, Force, Principles

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
Mark Twain

Word, Beginning, Educated

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Cannot, Hungry

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill

Power, Himself, Grown

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
Winston Churchill

Respect, Nation, Covet

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix

Hurt, Past, Nothing

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide

Path, Straight, Anywhere

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Live, Everything, Figured

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
Groucho Marx

Born, Democrats, Alike

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mahatma Gandhi

Equality, Everyone, Reporters

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan

Mind, Human, Around

There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Woman, Her

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing, Declare

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus

Life, Happiness, Simple

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Genius, Public

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Death, Live

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

Death, Nothing, Said

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates

Ignorance, Nothing, Fact

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson

Life, Important, Lives

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