"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

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"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."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization."

Steven Magee, British Author

Politics, Awareness, Military, Corruption

"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Politics, Alliance

"I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study, and if I could I should gladly march with it past the office of the Times and let all the reporters and photographers make the most of the spectacle."

Helen Keller, American Author

Politics, Love, Socialism, Revolution, Pride

"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."

Helen Keller, American Author

Politics, Democracy, Choice, Power

"I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Politics, Identity, Nation, Change

"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."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Politics, Act, Action, Age, Art

"Never give a good politician time to pray."

Stephen King, American Author

Politics, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Today

"Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written."

Stephen King, American Author

Politics, Power, Happiness, Inspirational, Truth

"Democracy passes into despotism."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water."

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"Yet, Malice never was his Aim;He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct...Verses on the death of Dr Swift."

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"He likewise directed, "that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public."

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"Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time."

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"111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best."

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"When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me."

Reading

"And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together."

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"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."

"Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization."

"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."

"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."

"I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag."

"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."

"Never give a good politician time to pray."

"Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written."

"Democracy passes into despotism."

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"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."

"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride."

"She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth."

"I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water."

"Yet, Malice never was his Aim;He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct...Verses on the death of Dr Swift."

"He likewise directed, "that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public."

"Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time."

"111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best."

"When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me."

"And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together."