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The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort o

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. – John Quincy Adams

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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. – Ulysses S. Grant

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Oh, wise physician of a wasted land! – Hermann Hagedorn

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Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. – Herbert Hoover, attributed

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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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