Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.
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A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.
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A half a dozen major wars, And forty-five presidents.
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I played through some circumstances that I don't normally have to play (at the Presidents Cup), but the team needed me and I tried to do my best to get points,
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year --- everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
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I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office
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Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for rea...
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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better ...
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.
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History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.
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Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?
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It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.
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Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.
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Presidents don't do it to their wives. They do it to their country.
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A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.
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There have been times when Democratic presidents picked Republican Fed chairmen and vice versa. I don't think Bush would go necessarily with politics.
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
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My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.
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Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.
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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
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