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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.

The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can either neutralize each other or have the economy lurching in all directions. This is not a rational system for setting economic policy. It has given us trouble in the past, as the text will establish, and will inevitably in the future.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

The gods hate unjust men.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.