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The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a h

The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. – Saul Bellow

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow

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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. – Saul Bellow

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Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution. – NapoleonI

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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot. – Abraham Lincoln

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My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. – George Washington, letter, 1789

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George Washington is one of the beacons placed at intervals along the highroad of history. – Orestes Ferrara

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