No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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To understand is not only to pardon but in the end to love.
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