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“There may not be much difference between Democrats and Republicans anymore.”

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Tom Daschle, born on December 9, 1947, is a former U.S. Senator with extensive political experience. He served as the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate and held key positions on several committees. more

“The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.”

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Book:Christian Reflections

Source: Christian Reflections

“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.”

Needs States Theory Ethics Election Congress Feeding Frenzy Enrichment Looting

Author:George Will

“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.”

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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

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