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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Author: Jack Anderson
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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Author: Benjamin Spock
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
Author: John Foster Dulles
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Author: Nelson Mandela
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We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
Author: John Steinbeck
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I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.
Author: H.l. Mencken
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Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Author: Stephen King
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Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious.
Author: Louis Althusser
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Without a country, I am not a man.
Author: Nawaf Al-nasir Al-sabah
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Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walk away... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents the least you will accept. Without one, you have no negotiating road map.
Author: Keiser
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We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
Author: Mary Kay Ash
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Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1].
Author: Bible
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Author: General Douglas Macarthur
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The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power.
Author: General Douglas Macarthur
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Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
Author: F.a. Hayek
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Author: Plato
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The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.
Author: Marcel Masse
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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Author: Aeschylus
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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
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The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
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"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!".
Author: Ken Kesey
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Author: Sallust
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Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
Author: General Douglas Macarthur
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From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
Author: General Douglas Macarthur
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I shall return.
Author: General Douglas Macarthur
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
Author: David Letterman
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
Author: Warren Bennis
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Author: Walter Lippmann
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The secret of getting things done is to act!
Author: Dante Alighieri
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Author: Leonard Bernstein
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Author: Ronald Reagan
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Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
Author: David Lloyd George
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A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.
Author: Fats Domino
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