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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that read more
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to read more
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other
Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't read more
Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close read more
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or read more
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do read more
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.
Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.