"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws."
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"We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle."
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"But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle."
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"The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it."
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"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."
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"You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain."
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"Don't be afraid to see what you see."
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"If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly."
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"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
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"There is no power without justice."
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"When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary."
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"Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there."
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"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral."
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"....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory."
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"Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art."
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"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game."
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"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
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"I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver."
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"Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can."
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"...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best."
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