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- I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971), Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24, 1963
- Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), New England Reformers, 1844
- A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845
- The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
- Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Resolutions, 1803
- When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday -- no matter what happened Tuesday.
- Stephen Colbert, Speech to White House Correspondent's Dinner, April 30, 2006
- The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
- Eden Ahbez, "Nature Boy" (song, recorded by Nat King Cole)
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
- For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
- Anne Rice (1941 - ), "Tale of the Body Thief"
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