“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
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There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
