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"We must consult our means rather than our wishes."
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"Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen."
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"Pragmatism is good prevention for problems."
"Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place."
"It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic."
"Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10."
"The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second."
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."
"Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood."
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"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."
"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
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"The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in."
"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."
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