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"The root system supports the branches."
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Personal Development
"The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this."
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Personal Development
"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
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Personal Development
"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."
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Personal Development
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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Personal Development
"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
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Personal Development
"Truth has no duality."
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Personal Development
"Too much truth is uncouth."
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Personal Development
"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."
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"A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely."
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"Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense."
Education
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
War
"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."
Power
"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
Government
"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
War
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
Learning
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
Home
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
Government
"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
Trust
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
Government
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