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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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"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
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"I'm busy, you're busy, everybody's busy. I've got a lot I want to say to you, though. 'All right, Pia told her. 'Hit me with it. 'First, I'm so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we're going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let's do lunch, okay?"
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"In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid."
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"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years."
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"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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"It is easier to start a war than to end it."
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"Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies."
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"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
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"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
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"It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion, that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts."
Union

"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery."
Freedom

"All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency."
Society

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
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"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment."
Patriotism

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
Patriotism

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism."
Politics

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
Discipline
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