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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

Everything popular is wrong.

Experts are just trained dogs.

Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today.

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.

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.

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 was really the basis for the New Deal.

Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

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

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

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 me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

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.

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.

Freedom is participation in power.

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

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

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