| Lord Acton |
- Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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| John Quincy Adams |
- Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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| Dante Alighieri |
- The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
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| Aristotle |
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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| Napoleon Bonaparte |
- He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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| Edmund Burke |
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an un-pitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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| Fidel Castro |
- The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
- The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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| W. C. Fields |
- Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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| Thomas Jefferson |
- I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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| Plato |
- Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
- A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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John Quincy Adams
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| The first President who was the son of a President, John Quincy Adams in many respects paralleled the career as well as the temperament and viewpoints of his illustrious father. Born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1767, he watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from the top of Penn's Hill above the family farm. As secretary to his father in Europe, he became an accomplished linguist and assiduous diarist. |
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