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Benjamin Harrison returns to Indianapolis a Civil War hero.

Once truth becomes oracular rather than factual, evidence is irrelevant.

History does not repeat, but it does instruct.

Honor. Courage. Selflessness. Sacrifice. Hard Work. Personal Responsibility. Respect for Elders. Respect for the Vulnerable. None of these virtues can be ascribed to Donald Trump.

Boris Johnson also has an uncanny form of charisma, some genius quality that attracts people and puts them at ease.

The point of all the changes was not to make government run better , the point was to make the government more partisan, the courts more pliable, more beholden to the party.

Kirsch is an unsweetened fruit brandy distilled from a mash of cherries.

I must say that when I heated some sake on the stove recently, to check that it was as horrible as I remembered, it took all the deposit off the lining of the saucepan.

I can't help thinking that the Canadians are a great crowd, but are perhaps the only people who could have produced a boring whisky.

News of Frick and Morgan's visits to Taft soon reached Roosevelt and his insurgent followers.

Neuchatel will help you force fondue down.

One infallible mark of your true drink man is that he reads everything on the subject that comes his way, from full-dress books to those tiny leaflets the makers tend to hang around the necks of their bottles.

I have always understood the pop and popular music came to the pubs because the brewers hoped thereby to reverse the falling-off in the recruitment of younger patrons noticeable in the post-war period.

Wolfe, James 62-6

Heightened conventional union activity occurred on an international and domestic background that coloured these incidents with a startling red hue.

Britain shifted from a policy of conformity as per the Royal Proclamation of 1763 to exceptionalism in 1774 with the passage of the Quebec Act.

Within a period of 600 years, Thule people completely displaced Dorset people across the Arctic.

In the forested regions of Canada, distinctive hunting-fishing-gathering cultures emerged in the dense woodlands, around the many lakes and along the rivers.

The proper mechanism (for separating production from security) is some form of public tribunal on which labor, management and the public are represented.

To urge the importance of production because of its bearing on economic security, and to suggest that the product is in any way incidental, is disturbing.

Had Marx been mostly wrong, his influence would quickly have evaporated.

Hence, it clearly appears, that the same advantage which a republic has over a democracy, in controlling the effects of faction, is enjoyed by a large over a small republic - is enjoyed by the Union over the states composing it.

A strong sense of the value and blessings of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government to preserve and perpetuate it.

To proclaim the need for new ideas has served, in some measure, as a substitute for them.

Economic like other social life does not conform to a simple and coherent pattern.

Notes to Chapter Five

Ted Sorensen helps John F. Kennedy compile materials for his "Profiles in Courage"