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"The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose."
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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."
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"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community."
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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."
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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."
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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."
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"People are essentially red meat. They are."
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"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."
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"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."
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"People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting."
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"I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal."
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"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."
Freedom
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
Man
"We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists."
Trust
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
Man
"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
Leadership
"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."
People
"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."
Man
"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
Truth
"Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail."
Philosophy
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
Government
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