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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

Bernard Baruch

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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Country Made Record Reliance Sturdy
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
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Inspirational Success Talking
“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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Die Furthermore Horse King Learn Philosophy
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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Knowing Passion Thinking
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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Heart Love Mistake Task Undertake
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Character Technology Thinking
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
Never follow the crowd.
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Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
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

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