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• Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
• All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
• This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
• Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
• A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
• The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
• Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
• Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
• In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
• In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
• A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
• Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

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