When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

I have always believed in development over votebank politics.

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

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

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

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