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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well as the various forms of nonwage property income to the owners of capital. In itself, it is no more responsible for maldistribution of purchasing power than the science of bookkeeping is responsible for bankruptcy.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

Public Speaking is very easy.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.

Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.

Reading musses up my mind.

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Revolutions are not made for export.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

Revolutions never go backward.

Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

Rick, I’ll tell you what - ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet?

Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Seriously, he is just a voice on the radio, unlike the ones in your head, you don't have to do what he tells you to do.

Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what is regarded in a particular society as the reasonable level of subsistence. The lower ranks of labor will commonly have less, and if public relief were afforded even up to the wage-level of the lowest ranks of labor, that relief would compete in the labor market; check or dry up the supply of wage-labor. It would tend to render the performance of work by the wage-earner redundant.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.