"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation."

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"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation."

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"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

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"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."

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"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."

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"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."

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"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans."

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"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

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"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."

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"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."

"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans."

"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."

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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

"Politicians look for interests not people."

"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."

"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."