"Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them."
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"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth."
"In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story."
"If you show people you don't care, they'll return the favor. Show them you care, they'll reciprocate."
"Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable."
"He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold."
"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people."
"I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal."
"If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets."
"Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean."
"Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave."
"The favor of God does not bless self-promotion"
"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
"Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue."
"About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork."
"A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once."
"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."
"The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth."
"The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us."
"It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment."