Henry Lewis Stimson

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    I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
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    If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over seems to me to mean something like this: in any possible state of affairs in which kangaroos have no tails, and which resembles our actual state of affairs as much as kangaroos having no tails permits it to, the kangaroos topple over.
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