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“A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.”

Giving States Government Purpose Reading President United United States Records Horse Congress Thieves Senators Foreigners

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.”

Two Government Remember Race Horse Vices Opposition Vice Versa

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.”

People Wells Has Beens Government Order Rights Military Horse Police Population Concerts Anarchy Spontaneous Despotism Free Government Military Police

Book:Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.”

Should Firsts May Made Government America Politics Process Kings Horse Technique Circles Fund Sunrise Selection Drowning Qualifications Persia Unconcerned Electoral Process Darius

Author:Barbara Tuchman