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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.

Bernard Baruch

Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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Business Experiment Fool Government
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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Fall Higher Insurance Money Pension Unemployment
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Blessing Discipline Freedom
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Communism Government Important Political Struggle
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Bridges Crosses Economy
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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Learn Men Observation
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Cold Shooting War
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy

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