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American corporations hate to give away money.
Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
I've been to the White House a number of times.
Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.
Confession without repentance is just bragging.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
History is still in large measure poetry to me.
We continue to think of new things in old ways.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.
Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
The world belongs to those with the most energy.
We need a new political science for a new world.
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.
The mind resorts to reason for want of training.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
The violence of our time is caused by obedience.
Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.
The majority is still at the General's disposal.
If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.
Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.
From time to time historians need to be shocked.
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
My first book was the book that changed my life.
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
The persecution of genius fosters its influence.