Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

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Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout ""Bang!""

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If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

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