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"It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out."
"I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government."
"All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it."
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything."
"Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct."
"Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own."
"You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela."
"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys."
"They wanted me to be a Washington."
"Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood."
"The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence."
"Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave."
"Whenever we defend democracy we find oil."
"If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce."
"If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!"
"The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world."
"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity."
"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned."
"Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse."
"International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents."
