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"I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here."
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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."
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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."
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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."
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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."
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"The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them."
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"Study men, not historians."
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"I would rather have peace in the world than be President."
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"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."
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"Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."
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"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
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"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
Government

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
Care

"If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house."
President

"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."
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"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great."
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