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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

-John F. Kennedy

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.

-Mark Twain

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

-Plato

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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

-Milton Friedman

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It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

-Joseph Stalin

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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

-John Kenneth Galbraith

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

-Margaret Thatcher

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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

-Winston Churchill

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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

-Winston Churchill

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

-H. L. Mencken

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

-Aristotle

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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

-Winston Churchill

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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

-Thomas Jefferson

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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

-P. J. O'Rourke

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

-Mark Twain

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

-Emma Goldman

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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

-Thomas Sowell

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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

-Nelson Mandela

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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

-John Quincy Adams

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A fool and his money are soon elected.

-Will Rogers

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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

-H. L. Mencken

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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

-Thomas Jefferson

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Politics have no relation to morals.

-Niccolo Machiavelli

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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

-Alexander Hamilton

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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

-Newt Gingrich

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

-Noam Chomsky

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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

-P. J. O'Rourke

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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

-Ronald Reagan

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