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| #9421 | | America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism
to decadence without touching civilization.
-- John O'Hara
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| #9422 | | America: born free and taxed to death.
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| #9423 | | An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the
benefit of his country.
-- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639
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| #9424 | | An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the president but is
always polite to traffic cops.
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| #9425 | | An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in
small as in great matters.
-- W. Churchill
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| #9426 | | An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
-- Simon Cameron
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians. When
bought they stay bought.
-- Bill Moyers
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| #9427 | | Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no
government at all.
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| #9428 | | "...and the fully armed nuclear warheads, are, of course, merely a
courtesy detail."
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| #9429 | | And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, for if you hit a man
with a plowshare, he's going to know he's been hit.
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| #9430 | | And yet, seasons must be taken with a grain of salt, for they too have
a sense of humor, as does history. Corn stalks comedy, comedy stalks
tragedy, and this too is historic. And yet, still, when corn meets
tragedy face to face, we have politics.
-- Dalglish, Larsen and Sutherland, "Root Crops and
Ground Cover"
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