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• To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one…
• The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
• If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy…
• The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
• Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
• What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
• I like the noise of democracy.
• No form of government, however admirable in itself and however productive of material benefits, can compensate for the loss of peace and…

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