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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

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I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

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On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

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People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.

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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

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