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"We must consult our means rather than our wishes."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!"
"Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school."
"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."
"A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths."
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"In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy."
"Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest."
"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."
"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."
"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
"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."
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