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I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
Memoirs (1993)
The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
Memoirs (1993)
I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
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The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers.
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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.
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We aimed far and high, but we did not miss the mark.
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As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
I worked to put this view of social justice into effect throughout my years in office.
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I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.
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A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
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What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.
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When I had been appointed to the Cabinet in 1967, I had been struck by the amateurism that reigned in the upper echelons of the federal government.
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What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries; it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.
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