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| I think we will live through his term, Archie, and I’ll tell you something, old man, if they don’t stop hammering me, first Bryan for not enforcing the Anti-Trust Law and Wall Street for enforcing it, they may succeed in electing me to another term whether I want it or not. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, November 20, 1911. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 2: 766, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). ~ |
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| [T]heories are the offspring of the closet; exceptions and qualifications are the lessons of experience. |
| ~ Letter to Charles J. Ingersoll, December 30, 1835 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 388) ~ |
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| War is a contagion. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. Democratic politician, president. speech, Oct. 5, 1937, Chicago. Quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of Franklin D. Roosevelt, “War,” ed. Maxwell Meyersohn (1950). ~ |
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| [Beer] is an excellent wash. |
| ~Good Queene Bess ~ |
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| At leaving even the most unpleasant people And places, one keeps looking at the steeple. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 14. ~ |
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| I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are Communists. |
| ~ President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, conversation with Representative Martin Dies at the White House, as reported by Dies.—Congressional Record, September 22, 1950, vol. 96, Appendix, p. A6832. “The quote is exceedingly dubious; it is most unlikely that FDR would have said anything like it, even flippantly, to the zealous HUAC chairman, though he may have told Dies that he was exaggerating the size of the American communist movement.”—Paul F. Boller, Jr., Quotemanship: The Use and Abuse of Quotations for Polemical and Other Purposes, chapter 8, p. 361 (1967). ~ |
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| You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 26, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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