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"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
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"National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty."
"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings."
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"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
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"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
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