No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
That government is best which governs least.
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