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"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."
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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
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"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."
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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."
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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
War
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
Politics
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
Freedom
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Wisdom
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
Politics
"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."
Education
"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste."
Politics
"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
Wisdom
"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
Freedom
"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."
Nature
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