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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

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There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

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I am mindful that we're all sinners.

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I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

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I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.

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If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.

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It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

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Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report it.

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The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

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It's my first trip as president of the United States.

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You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

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If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

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After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

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I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

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Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

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