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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Last words, October 12, 1915.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.

I have not yet begun to fight!

Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.