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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
Author: Di Cavour
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Author: Martin Luther King
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Politics is not an exact science.
Author: Otto Von Bismarck
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Politics is the art of the possible.
Author: Otto Von Bismarck
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A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Author: Mark Twain
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.
Author: Mark Twain
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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
Author: Confucius
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
Author: Mark Twain
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We are the people our parents warned us about.
Author: Jimmy Buffett
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For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.
Author: Jello Biafra
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CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat.
Author: Otto Von Bismarck
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The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
Author: Steven Biko
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Author: Socrates
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Author: Socrates
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Author: Otto Von Bismark
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Author: Socrates
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Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
Author: Samuel Adams
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...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.
Author: Hedrick Smith
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The plans differ; the planners are all alike...
Author: Frederic Bastiat
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...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.
Author: William Graham Sumner
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...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
Author: Edward Gibbon
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The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Author: Henry Hazlitt
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Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
Author: John Arbuthnot
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It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after.
Author: Denis William Brogan
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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
Author: Auberon Herbert
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
Author: Murray Edelman
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that set of options which has economic value...It is the options, and not the physical things, which are the "property" - economically as well as legally...But because the public tends to think of property as tangible, physical things, this opens the way politically for government confiscation of property by forcibly taking away options while leaving the physical objects untouched.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain- and since labor is pain in itself- it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.
Author: Frederic Bastiat
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Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.
Author: David Friedman
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I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.
Author: Andy Warhol
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Author: Sandra Day O'connor
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A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.
Author: J. F. Clarke
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The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.
Author: John B. Anderson
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers.
Author: Anon
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Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines..
totals can apparently be manipulated from outside
the voting area.
(on Diane Rehm Show)
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html.
Author: Howard Dean
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
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A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
Author: Henry Waldorf Francis
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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Author: Florence King
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Enemies promises were made to be broken.
Author: Aesop
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