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"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension."
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"Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot."

"No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security."

"Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment."

"I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way."

"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate."

"The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides."

"There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system."
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"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans."

"The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age."

"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few."

"Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic."

"The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children."
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