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There's nothing left to do but get drunk.

Franklin Pierce Adams

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Jean-Baptiste Say

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Rutherford B. Hayes

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield

A public office is a public trust.

Attributed to Roman law and American statesmen

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Benjamin Harrison

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

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