On the night of New Year’s Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year’s resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.
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Martha Gellhorn
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.
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James Freeman Clarke
He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.
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Nick Taylor
Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.
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Vladimir Odoyevsky
Only one thing to it: a strong stomach. The guts to gladhand a man you're going to stab in the back; pledge allegiance to principles you stomp on every day; righteously denounce some despot in the press and sell him arms under the table. The...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Ehab Atalla
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by...
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use."~ Louis D. Brandeis
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil
The most important office is that of private citizen.
