"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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"Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal."
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"I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying."
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"Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail."
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"Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call."
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"By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties."
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"We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds."
-Igor Ivanov
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