A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I read more

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable read more

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose

It is wiser to find out than to suppose

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is
praised as equal to the gods.
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There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is
praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.