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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.