A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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