"When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical."
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"There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away."
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"Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind."
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"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
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"Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm."
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"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what."
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"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see."
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"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
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"Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death."
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"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents."
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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."
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"I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics."
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"I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
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"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense."
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"How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave."
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
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"Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain."
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"At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point."
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
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"Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut."
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