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All Quotes Collection
"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn."
40
"Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."
35
"The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
42
"What is right and what is practicable are two different things."
53
"To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute."
45
"If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed."
Man,
53
"The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men."
37
"I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct."
29
"Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes."
36
"The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body."
28
"Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest."
29
"No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world."
30
"If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula."
36
"I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore."
80
"A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it."
37
"Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before."
47
"This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security."
44
"The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water."
50
"Television has a real problem. They have no page two."
37
"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."
62
"So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around."
43
"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."
Will,
66
"I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team."
34
"Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was."
47
"Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?"
41
"I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw."
29
"I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had."
26
"I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government."
32
"When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government."
41
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
47
"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
32
"The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it."
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"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it."
37
"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."
60
"Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment."
45
"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."
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