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"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

"Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper."

"There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness."

"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."

"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."

"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."

"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
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