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The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is read more
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If read more
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.
You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
Enemies promises were made to be broken.
Enemies promises were made to be broken.
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by read more
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.
The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive read more
The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector.
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
