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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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"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."

"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."

"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive."

"If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress."

"People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours."

"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."

"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it."
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