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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
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.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
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.