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What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don’t serve us well because they don’t tell the truth, and they don’t keep their promises.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world’s ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

If they’re in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners – they’re murderers, they’re terrorists, they’re insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we’re so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

I suppose the White House thinks it’s doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.