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"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."
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"The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers."
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"Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered."
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"Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not."
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"The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy."
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"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."
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"Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil."
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"Any intervention, such as that of the German Reichsbank in the Spring of 1923, in which only a small part of the increasing note-expansion was recovered by the banks through the sale of foreign bills, would necessarily be unsuccessful. Led by the idea of opposing speculation, inflationistic governments have allowed themselves to become involved in measures whose meaning is hardly intelligible. Thus at one time the importation of notes, then their exportation, then again both their exportation and importation, have been prohibited. Exporters have been forbidden to sell for their own country's notes, importers to buy with them."
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"I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days."
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"In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end."
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"Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not."
Policy

"Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves."
Faith

"To marry is to get a binocular view of life."
Life

"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it."
Government

"The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things."
Man

"Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction."
God

"The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts."
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"Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove."
Faith

"The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's."
People

"The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born."
Time
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