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We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with...
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly...
Quote #23094
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Quote #14712
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or...
Quote #13318
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
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I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of...
Quote #632
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing...
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When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though...
Quote #3082
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Quote #29713
‘State intelligence,’ like ‘military intelligence’ and ‘woman friend,’ is a contradiction in terms.