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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

"Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter."

"A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed."

"In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
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"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."

"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."

"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige."

"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."

"There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own."

"For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction."

"We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent."

"It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system."

"All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing."

"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States."
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