If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
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I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.
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When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all Americans are in peril.
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You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
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Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
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