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"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."


"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."


"We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated."


"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."


"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."


"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."


"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems."
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