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“It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.”
“A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.”
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“A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.”
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“The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.”
“The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.”
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“The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.”
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“To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.”
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“It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.”
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“There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.”
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