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"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."
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"I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away."

"Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party."

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."

"The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election."

"Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party."

"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

"I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum."
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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."


"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."


"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."


"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak."


"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."


"People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."


"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."


"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
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