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- The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
- Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
- Brides aren't happy - they are just triumphant.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- A person in a uniform is merely an extension of another person's will.
- Philip Slater
- I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.
- The Residents "Duck Stab":Bach is Dead
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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