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- Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
- Judge Gideon J. Tucker
- Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973)
- The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
- Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989)
- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- William H. Borah
- The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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