"There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time."
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"A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him."
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"Keep up appearances whatever you do."
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"Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read."
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"The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family."
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"All that foreign oil controlling American soil."
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"Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall."
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"In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave."
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"Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters."
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"On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game."
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"Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan."
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"At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity."
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"Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well"
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"There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory."
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"The message of [Fahernheit 9/11] is very weak and propagandistic ... We were used to such messages in the communist days. Everybody has open eyes and can understand that this is propaganda. It was a weak film that tells us nothing new."
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"Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor."
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"If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam."
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"We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism."
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"No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures."
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"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal."
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