Scott Farris Quotes

#1. The great actors always play themselves.

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#2. Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity.

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#3. (John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in which an enlightened ruling class makes reasoned, rational decisions that are in the interest of the more emotional and easily manipulated masses.

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#4. Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.

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#5. As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.

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#6. Stevenson told the legionnaires that patriotism "is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. . . . For it is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

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#7. In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.

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#8. They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path.

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#9. it is not surprising that some, such as the historian John R. Vile, suggest we consider the concession as a form of military surrender or even a funeral oration. Just as after a war, the public wants peace after a presidential campaign. They hope that politicians will emulate that most

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#10. You do not know the dishonest purposes of these men as well as I do," Douglas told Lincoln of the secessionists. "If I were president, I'd convert or hang them all within forty-eight hours.

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#11. One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.

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