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“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.”
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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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“Those on the right can do what those on the left talk about,” Nixon replied.”
― Richard Nixon: The Life
― Richard Nixon: The Life
“Liberals just did not understand the real world, he claimed. They were “essentially humanitarian and altruistic in purpose,” but by making the working man dependent on the state for his well-being, they were advancing the country “one more step toward total socialism, just beyond which lies total dictatorship.” Such people think “the government owes us a living because we were born.” Dependence upon state handouts, he asserted, “must be repudiated everywhere.”
― The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
― The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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