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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
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John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
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James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.
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Arthur C. Clarke
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.
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Bernard Mannes Baruch
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
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Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
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Will Rogers
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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William Thayer Shedd
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
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Benjamin Franklin
Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.
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