Politics

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  • I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
        Jean Kerr   Best?
  • Anyone who is different today faces harassment, whether it is in the way he dresses, or in the position he takes on important issues. And when the price of being different is a cold fear, with good reason, then freedom as we peddle it in our international publicity releases is gone. If and when it disappears, it won't be stolen by big government, the tax collector, or the Supreme Court. Fascism will be the people's choice. It usually is. We've managed to avoid it so far only because nobody nutty enough to give the people what they want has come along. Yet.
        Mike Royko   Best?
  • I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields.(Irish Blessing)
        Unknown   Best?
  • All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
        Joni Mitchell   Best?
  • Science is nothing but perception.
        Plato   Best?
  • Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
        Thucydides   Best?
  • Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
        J. C. Penny   Best?
  • Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
        Paxton Hood   Best?
  • Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
        Peter da Silva   Best?
  • Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • ...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
        Sylvia Plath   Best?
  • It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Here's to our girlfriends and wives; may they never meet!
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
        George Washington   Best?
  • It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
        Daniel Webster   Best?
  • Where the people fear the government you have tyranny; where the government fears the people, you have liberty.
        William Feather   Best?
  • Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.
        John Hinckley   Best?
  • Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
        Jimmy Durante   Best?
  • A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
        Bertrand de Jouvenal   Best?
  • I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  • I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.
        Hugh Elliott   Best?
  • To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.
        Leopold Stein   Best?
  • Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.
        Billy Connolly   Best?
  • Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Knowing is half the battle.
        GI Joe   Best?
  • "Age before beauty? I think that was just created so some old man could feel beautiful again. I bet George Bush made that quote."
        xxBrokenByLovexx   Best?
  • In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
        General Omar Bradley   Best?
  • If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and
        Joseph Goebbels   Best?
  • France is like a great compass, which ever way they point to, go the complete opposite direction and you'll be fine.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
        Nikola Tesla   Best?

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