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(69 votes)   The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

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(65 votes)   Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

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(64 votes)   The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

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(62 votes)   Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.

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(62 votes)   I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

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(62 votes)   Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

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(61 votes)   The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

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(60 votes)   A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

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(59 votes)   I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

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(57 votes)   Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

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(57 votes)   If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

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(57 votes)   It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

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(57 votes)   Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

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(52 votes)   Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

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(48 votes)   No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

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