"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."
-Will Rogers
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"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."
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"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."
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"The United States never lost a war or won a conference."
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"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."
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"Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week."
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"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
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"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity."
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"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
-Richard Dreyfuss
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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