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1139 Statesman Quotes

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Collaboration Every Result Sin
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Call Fate Fortune God
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Acquaintances Ends Everywhere Foreign
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In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Prize Runner-Up War There
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Arms Becomes Commander Dependence
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Conservatives Liberals Trust Don't
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Action He Himself Man
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Also Another Does Good
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He who is brave is free.

Brave Free He Who
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Where fear is, happiness is not.

Fear Happiness Where Not
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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Anticipation Expecting Greatest Impediment
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Anxious Dependence Enjoy Future
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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Cracked Foolish Known Men
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

God Image Justice Love
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Done Good Remind Reproach
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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Actions Conduct Man Mean
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Dictator Enemy Freedom Law
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Alliance Close Despot Free
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Anxiety Avoid Beware Lest
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Accompanied Action Empty Speech
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Excessive Free Good Security
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Believe Best Everything Necessarily
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Advantage Against Democracy Despot
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Banished Earth First Mankind
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Cultivate Faith Good Harmony
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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Common Consent Individuals Laws
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Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Bring Light Pains Prevail
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

God Hands Honest Raise
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Confidence Courteous Few Give
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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Alone Bad Better Company
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Form Government Grown Hostile
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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Abuse Deprive Found Jealousy
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Begins Growth Liberty Plant
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Accomplish Act Constrain Enemy
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Avoid Desire Instruments Insult
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I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Conduct Drawn Ground Hereafter
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Army Discipline Esteem Formidable
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Aside Assumed Citizen Lay
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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

American Determine Free Hand
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Actions Attachment Convince Criterion
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Effective Means Most Peace
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Afflictions Distress Everyone Feel
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Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Away Bad Kind Lost
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Connected Duty Happiness Moral
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Abuse Arbitrary Easily Established
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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Basis Citizen Defense Down
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Bought Dearly Derive Errors
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Borrow Interest Paid Trouble
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I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

Country Founded Good Honors
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The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Authorized Congress Constitution Declaring
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