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...reelection. Or if a member dies or retires, others have made plans years ahead to succeed the retiring member. Thus it will rarely happen that an ex-President can enter the Senate without an undignified and unseemly contest. Then, too it is probable that most ex-Presi-dents would shrink from membership in the. Senate. An ex-Presi-dent would enter the Senate a tyro, like any other new member unfamiliar with Senate rules, without an important committee chairmanship, less ready in debate probably than the practiced old members. From being the most important figure in Washington he would become...
...hands of time were turned back, not advanced by the War. . . . The streams of conscience and liberty can be dammed, not dried. They may shrink to rivulets. They will again be rivers . . . only if they will see the truth that there is no enemy to mankind like the sword. . . . By it will perish all liberty, all progress, humanity itself, if it be not forever sheathed...
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...corporation will be required to manufacture 3,000,000 gallons of whiskey yearly. This will shrink to the 2,000,000 gallons needed annually for licit purposes, after the five years that whiskey must age to be good...
That mission has been fulfilled in many ways. I cannot in modesty outline the stops in a career that has carried me from obscurity to the glare of fame's spotlight, from which I have ceaselessly tried to shrink. But fame is fame, and I belong to my public after ail. When ever I cross the Yard with my dog, I can see that everyone knows who I am. I have me privacy any more but I rather like it. What would life be if we were all on the same plane? We must have our heroes. I've always...