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When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to read more
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of read more
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only read more
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebble
to vote.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebble
to vote.
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we read more
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I read more
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.".
You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on read more
You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.