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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and read more
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
If you have a lemon, make lemonade.
If you have a lemon, make lemonade.
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most read more
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire read more
The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.
If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation read more
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
