Thomas Reed Quotes

• One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

  Thomas Reed

  Libertarian Party, Evil, Liberty

  "Will It Be As Always?" by Henryk A. Kowalczyk, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.

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• They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

  Thomas Reed

  Life, Sarcastic, Teaching

  "Political Insults: Cheap Shots or Do They Play an Important Role in American Politics?" by Rich Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2014.

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• They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.

  Thomas Reed

  Political, Politics

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• The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.

  Thomas Reed

  Party, Watches

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• A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

  Thomas Reed

  Successful, Politician, Statesmen

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• It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

  Thomas Reed

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

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• All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

  Thomas Reed

  Majority, World, Shouting

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• If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

  Thomas Reed

  Progress, Matter, Today

  "Orations and addresses".

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• One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

  Thomas Reed

  Fear, Humorous, Atheism

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• The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

  Thomas Reed

  Moving, Men, Race

  Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”

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• The only justification of rebellion is success.

  Thomas Reed

  Rebellion, Justification

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• There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.

  Thomas Reed

  Race, Police, Humanity

  Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”

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• Politics is mostly pill-taking.

  Thomas Reed

  Political, Pills, Politics

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• Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

  Thomas Reed

  Men, Principles, Sides

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