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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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"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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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."
Inspirational
"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."
Wisdom
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Politics
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
Leadership
"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."
Integrity
"Knowledge is true opinion."
Education
"Necessity... the mother of invention."
Innovation
"Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies."
Education
"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."
Self-Control
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
Education
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