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 Douglas Jerrold
Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
