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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."

"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

"People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life."
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"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

"If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent."

"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."

"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."

"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."
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