"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty."

Politics, Government, Marriage, Knowledge

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"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty."

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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

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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."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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"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

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

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"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

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

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"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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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

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"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"Never answer a question from a farmer."

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"Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty."

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"The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one."

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"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."

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"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."

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"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

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"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."

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"To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed."

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"We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics."

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"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."

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