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All Quotes Collection

"I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it."
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"It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government."
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"If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government."
32

"If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief."
42

"It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration."
38

"It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it."
34

"It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing."
42

"Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy."
37

"With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral."
33

"This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic."
44

"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for."
38

"When all else is lost, the future still remains."
79

"We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us."
38

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
62

"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys."
49

"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."
33

"They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers."
39

"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
39

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."
56

"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
32

"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."
41

"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised."
40

"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
46

"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
32

"Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity."
39

"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one."
52

"It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon."
47

"In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it."
50

"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."
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