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    Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
    that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot
    along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the
    distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures
    comparatively nothing.

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Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Politics Quotes,
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

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Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.

Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Politics Quotes,
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

by Charles Degaulle Found in: Politics Quotes,
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Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

by John Stuart Mill Found in: Politics Quotes,
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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best read more

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best method.
[Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio,
nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have read more

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.

by Winston Churchill Found in: Politics Quotes,
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my read more

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

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