A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. Ronald Reagan
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. Ronald Reagan
How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Ronald Reagan
People don’t start wars, governments do. Ronald Reagan
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail. Woodrow Wilson
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow Wilson
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. Woodrow Wilson
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Patience will achieve more than force. Edmund Burke
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. Edmund Burke
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it. Donald Rumsfeld
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers. Donald Rumsfeld
Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer. Donald Rumsfeld
Watch the growth of middle level management. Don’t automatically fill vacant jobs. Leave some positions unfilled for 6-8 months to see what happens. You will find you won’t need to fill some of them. Donald Rumsfeld
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Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. Thomas Szasz
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. Thomas Szasz
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest homage to truth is to use it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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