"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."

Diplomacy, Being, Day, Nerves

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"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."

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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."

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"But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?"

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"Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest."

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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

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"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."

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"We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland."

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"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."

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"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words."

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"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."

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"Finality is not the language of politics."

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"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans."

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"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."

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"The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age."

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"Travel teaches toleration."

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"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few."

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"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."

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"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."

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"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."

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"Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic."

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