That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
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Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.
House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.
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No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.
Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.
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