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The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

The best politics is right action.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.

The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

The cause of the riots were the rioters

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

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

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

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

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

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

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

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

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

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