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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from
the vexation of thinking.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1831
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| Linux Politics: 34 of 693 |
A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
-- Harry S. Truman
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| Linux Politics: 35 of 693 |
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
-- O'Henry
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| Linux Politics: 36 of 693 |
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures.
-- Daniel Webster
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| Linux Politics: 37 of 693 |
Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, D.C.
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| Linux Politics: 38 of 693 |
"After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of
the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the
cost to others, to win advancement."
-- Norman Thomas
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| Linux Politics: 39 of 693 |
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy,
Ecole Superieure de Guerre
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Alea iacta est.
[The die is cast]
-- Gaius Julius Caesar
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing - and that was
the closest our country has ever been to being even.
-- The Best of Will Rogers
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All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent
upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a
visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is
informing, stimulating and ennobling.
-- H. L. Mencken
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