Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.
No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.
The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
I say that justice is truth in action.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.
Never complain and never explain.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or the other. But only one. A country where our president either has our back or turns his back; a country that honors our foremothers by moving us forward, or one that forces our generation to re-fight the battles they already won; a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn't apply to our bodies and our voices.
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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