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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 gods hate unjust men.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

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

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

The institution of private property... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in essence, is retrogressive or unrepublican, but because in fact, it is unrepublican, and for that reason retrogressive also.

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

The libertarian good society lies... in the maximum dispersion of property compatible with effective production or, as process, in progressive reconciliation of conflicts between equality and efficiency. Such process involves increasing dispersion both of wealth among persons and families and of proximate productional control among enterprises or firms.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

The media is Obama's scandal condom.

The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply solely to biological processes and not to processes of the spirit.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.