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2008 September 19
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"If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal.
If you want government to intervene overseas, you're conservative.
If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate.
If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist." |
"Whenever you find that you are on the side
of the majority, it is time to reform." |
"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing,
you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The one that's out always looks the best." |
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2008 September 18
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"An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal." |
"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man;
a debt he proposes to pay off with your money." |
"It takes two wings to fly." |
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2008 September 17
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"Being in politics is like being a football coach.
You have to be smart enough to understand the game,
and dumb enough to think it's important." |
"The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that the pickpocket doesn't get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself." |
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession.
I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." |
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2008 September 16
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics
is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." |
"Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity.
They are the vital process of policy among free men." |
"Every politician, every member of the clerical profession,
ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested
supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition,
and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry.
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it." |
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2008 September 15
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"Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few." |
"Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue..." |
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