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"In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best."
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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"No holidays, no country."
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"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."
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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."
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"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
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"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."
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"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."
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"The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other."
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"The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything."
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"The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds."
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"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."
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"The real essence of work is concentrated energy."
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"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."
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"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
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