I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

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I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.

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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

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