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Experts are just trained dogs.

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.

Feelin' guilty, feelin' scared, hidden cameras everywhere.

Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only that individuals may be able to provide for themselves and their families but also that the goods which the Creator destined for the entire family of mankind may through this institution truly serve this purpose.

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

Frankly, sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you.

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Freedom is participation in power.

Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

From experience I can say that we can make our nation corruption free. Only promises won't help...Irade Nek Hone Chahiye.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary.

Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes'.

Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

Good government is good politics.