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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.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

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

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

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

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 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 Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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 liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

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

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 meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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

The media is Obama's scandal condom.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

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 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 money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.