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It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution is Property. The problem before us is, how to restore Property so that it shall be, as it was not so long ago, a general institution.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do.

It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

It's so much more fun to watch FOX when it's someone else being blitzed & sacked!

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one