Liberals

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  • The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...
        Geronimo   Best?
  • SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return.
        Unknown   Best?
  • To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
        Langston Hughes   Best?
  • The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
        Alexander Graham Bell   Best?
  • The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
        Flora Whittemore   Best?
  • Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
        Pooh's Little Instruction Book   Best?
  • From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.
        Unknown   Best?
  • If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
        Solon   Best?
  • Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
        W. S. Gilbert   Best?
  • For NASA, space is still a high priority.
        Dan Quayle   Best?
  • I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
        W. C. Fields   Best?
  • Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
        Pat Paulsen   Best?
  • Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
        Herman Melville   Best?
  • There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
        Milton Friedman   Best?
  • In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.
        Henri Cartier-Bresson   Best?
  • At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.
        Thai Proverb   Best?
  • We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.
        Ayn Rand   Best?
  • When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
        Woodrow Wilson   Best?
  • Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  • Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous.
        Jasper Johns   Best?
  • Noble be man,
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Best?
  • Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
        Frederick Buechner   Best?
  • Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?
        Marquis de Sade   Best?
  • The moment we find the reason behind an emotion...the wall we have built is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.
        Gloria Steinem   Best?
  • Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.
        Mario Cuomo   Best?

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