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What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers

You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen

I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket

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DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)

You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
- Thomas Jefferson

The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain

For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank

The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish
there was less immaturity in political thinking.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein

The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent
will not pass until there is
an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain

Whatever starts in California,
unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
- Jimmy Carter

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Abraham Lincoln

Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

It has become appallingly obvious that
our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality
by contact with this great novel land of yours
which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
- Winston Churchill

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq
was unnecessary and unjust.
And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
- Jimmy Carter

Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly,
usually for the same reason.
- Anonymous

Man tends to increase at a greater rate
than his means of subsistence.
- Charles Darwin

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me,
but it can keep him from lynching me,
and I think that's pretty important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job:
it's a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S. Truman

When we get piled upon one another
in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
- Thomas Jefferson

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails,
and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
- William J. Clinton

The natural progress of things is for liberty
to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold.
It is also true that speed can multiply
the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
- Edward R. Murrow

The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau

A riot is, at bottom, the language of the unheard.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill

Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is
the only animal which devours his own kind,
for I can apply no milder term to
the general prey of the rich on the poor.
- Thomas Jefferson

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill

How does it become a man to behave
towards the American government today?
I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- Henry David Thoreau

All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln

Loyalty to country ALWAYS.
Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain

I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy

The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb

Anyone who isn't confused,
really doesn't understand the situation.
- Edward R. Murrow

The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation

In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill

Suppose you were an idiot,
and suppose you were a member of Congress;
but I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain

Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh

The time comes upon every public man
when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
- Abraham Lincoln

In my country we go to prison first, and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man.
Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill

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