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"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."

"Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?"

"It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation."

"I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere."
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

"A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless."

"As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so."

"Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back."

"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
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