"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Politics, Power, Government, Class, Wealth

"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

Politics, Freedom, Choice, Autonomy

"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Politics, Peace, War, Values, Question

"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Politics, Government, Corruption, Stupidity

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Politics, Defense, Terrorism, Civilization

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

Townsend Harris, American Businessman

Politics, Open, Trade

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

Politics, Change, Nations, Poverty

"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Politics, Danger, War, Power

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

Politics, Society, America, Example

"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

Steven Magee, British Author

Politics, Enemy, Health, Government, Safety

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"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer."

Courage

"Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth."

Reflection

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

Politics

"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

Diplomacy

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

Freedom

"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace."

Possibility

"America is too great for small dreams."

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"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

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"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer."

"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent."

"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."

"Trust, but verify."

"Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth."

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace."

"America is too great for small dreams."