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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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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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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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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."
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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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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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"British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow."
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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."
Science
"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
Cause
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
Friendship
"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
Freedom
"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast."
Love
"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."
Religion
"One man with courage is a majority."
Courage
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
Freedom
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
Wisdom
"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
Diplomacy
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