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"I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form."
"A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed."
"If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself."
"The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it."
"The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep."
"Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State."
"Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself."
"There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race."
"The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs."
"A party is perpetually corrupted by personality."
"A good deal of our politics is physiological."
"A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was."
"In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant."
"There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney."
"Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it."
"I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."
"There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition."
"It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation."
"What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does."