Quote #26

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

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  1. Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
  2. We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
  3. To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
  4. What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
  5. To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
  6. What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
  7. The heart is the best reflective thinker.
  8. Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresse…

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