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  • It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

  • The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

    Government   Self   Doe  
    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.499
  • Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

    Funny   Wisdom   Country  
  • What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

    Men   Ideas   Political  
    John Dos Passos (2013). “1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim.

    Country   Sorry   Swim  
  • A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

  • Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

    Law   Mad   Three  
  • In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.

  • Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

  • The perfect is the enemy of the good.

    "La Bégueule". Poem by Voltaire, 1772.
  • In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

  • Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

  • If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.373
  • [Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons.... We...are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.

  • The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

    Race   White   Politics  
  • I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.

    Funny   War   People  
    Ronald Reagan (1968). “I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California”
  • If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

  • Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

  • There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

    The Guardian, May 23, 1992.
  • Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

    Men   Two   Political  
  • Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.

  • Envy creates the beginning of strife.

    "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 166), 1948.
  • Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

  • There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

    'Notes for an Oration at Braintree' (Spring 1772)
  • I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.

    Men   Bird   Answers  
    Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing
  • Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

  • At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

    "Judges switched on as Turner Prize goes to the Creed of nothingness" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2001.
  • In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

    Book   Fire   Library  
    "Dole, in Choosing Kemp, Buried A Bitter Past Rooted in Doctrine" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 1996.
  • How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.

    Men   People   Criminals  
  • There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

    War   Winning   Class  
    "In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning". New York Times Magazine, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 2006.
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