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"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."
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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."

"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."

"The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption."

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."
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"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."

"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."

"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"

"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."

"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."

"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."

"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
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