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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be
too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which
was intended for her preservation.
-- Colton
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A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having
his neighbour notice it.
-- Trygve Lie
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices
that the system works.
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A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
-- Ramsey Clark
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from
the vexation of thinking.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1831
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A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
-- Harry S. Truman
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
-- O'Henry
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures.
-- Daniel Webster
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Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, D.C.
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"After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of
the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the
cost to others, to win advancement."
-- Norman Thomas
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