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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.