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“I cannot exaggerate the waste of the Presidents time and the consumption of his nervous vitality involved in listening to congressmens intercession as to local appointments. Why should the President have to have his time taken up in a discussion over ... who shall be the postmistress of Devils Lake, in North Dakota? How should he be able to know ... who is best fitted to fill such a place?”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
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