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Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers.
Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers.
If you have a lemon, make lemonade.
If you have a lemon, make lemonade.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in read more
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with read more
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. - Beyond the Horizon, 1942.
The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.
The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; read more
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
