Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.
A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh.
Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
As for our majority... one is enough.
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