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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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