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The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Author: Maureen Murphy
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Author: George Jean Nathan
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Author: Albert Pike
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Author: Dan Quayle
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We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.
Author: Dan Quayle
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The future will be better tomorrow.
Author: Dan Quayle
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I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
Author: Dan Quayle
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
Author: Dan Quayle
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
Author: Dan Quayle
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Author: Dan Quayle
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Author: Dan Quayle
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Author: Dan Quayle
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Author: Dan Quayle
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The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].
Author: Dan Quayle
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Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin.
Author: Dan Quayle
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Author: Dan Quayle
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
Author: Dan Quayle
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
Author: Dan Quayle
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Author: Dan Quayle
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I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
Author: Dan Quayle
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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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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
Author: William O. Douglas
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Author: Charles De Gaulle
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that "one man is as good as another;" a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.
Author: David Friedman
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The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
Author: P.j. O'rourke
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...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing for freedom, such a paralysis of the spirit, as disease. I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.
Author: Mark Sullivan
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All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.
Author: P.j. O'rourke
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
Author: P.j. O'rourke
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Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.
Author: Rudolph Rummel
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...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.
Author: David Hume
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We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.
Author: Rudolph Rummel
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In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
Author: Dr. Strangelove
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. - "Amendment II".
Author: U. S. Constitution
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