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Every good citizen … should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes … to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

— Cordell Hull

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A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.

Memoirs of Cordell Hull (1948)

There will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power, or any other of the separate alliances through which in the unhappy past the nations strove to safeguard their security or promote their interest.

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