"What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it."

People, Americans, Chance, Earth

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"What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it."

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"The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't."

Action, Afghanistan, Being, Iraq

"Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error."

People, Error, Politicians, Wrong

"Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build."

Tradition, Flexibility, Generations, Stability, Traditions

"What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it."

People, Americans, Chance, Earth

"Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family."

Family, Existence, Will

"One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it."

Freedom, Press

"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."

Equality, Opportunity

"For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character."

Action, Character, Court, Criticism

"It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written."

Nothing, Writing

"I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing."

People, Pity, Reform

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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