“Let's begin with one principle: it is better to talk, than to shoot.”
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
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Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 1 : Government jobs pay big money
Context: Who am I to talk? That’s a fair question, and one which deserves a better answer than I can give you. … Come to think of it, who are you? Whoever you are, I sympathize with you. I sympathize with everybody; that’s what I get for being a candidate myself. Let them call us nonentities. Who cares? A nonenitiy can be just as famous as anybody else if enough people know about him.
But let’s leave personalities out of this and just talk about me.
Written on a chalk board during his Nov. 9th, 1900 visit to Maeser Elementary School in Provo, Utah; Maeser Chalkboards Preserved http://education.byu.edu/news/2005/01/01/maeser-chalkboards-preserved|date=1
“5243. To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.”
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“Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”