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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

"A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat."

"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real."
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"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."

"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."

"I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here."

"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."
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