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“The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.”

Author

George Will

George Will (born May 4, 1941) is a prominent American conservative political commentator, columnist, and author. He is best known for his syndicated column in The Washington Post, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977. Will is also a regular contributor to Fox News and has written numerous books on politics, culture, and baseball. His work emphasizes traditional values, limited government, and free markets, making him a key figure in modern American conservatism. more

“European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.”

“A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.”

Men Force Lays Void Covenant Transfers

Book:Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”

Two War Force Virtue Fraud Anti War Antiwar Hype Cardinals Leviathan

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

Ifs Enemy Our Lives Violence Method Plot Robbers Protecting Ourselves

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.”

Bitter Pleasant

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.”

Ifs Knows Country Government Care Spirit Revolution Corruption Spread Wide Surface Reform Inevitable Indifferent Incapable

Book:Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

Source: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

“If there is going to be a Big Brother in the United States, it is going to be us. The FBI.”

Ifs States Bigs United United States Brother Fbi

Author:Paul George

“Time is clay; make something.”

Clay

Book:It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE

Source: It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE

“Your life is your message.”

Life Is Messages

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“At least 3% of the signers of the Constitution must have been gay, since that's the low estimate for any population sample. It was probably higher, given that they were a pretty talented bunch and wore wigs.”

Has Beens Given Higher Gay Lows Constitution Population Bunch Sample Wigs