Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter. - John Hay
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John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln. He served as United States Secretary of State from 1898 to 1905 under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
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