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" It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. "

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" It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill. "

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" I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place. "

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" The United States is a madhouse. "

" The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die. "

" Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing. "

" There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier. "

" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "

" I'm always an optimist! "

" The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library. "

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" As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. "

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" For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific. "

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" All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. "

" The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. "

" I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic. "

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