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Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric, Literally Tr. with Hobbes' Analysis, Examination Questions and an Appendix Containing the Greek Definitions: Also, The Poetic of Aristotle, Literally Tr., with a Selection of Notes, an Analysis, and Questions

“If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.”

“In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.”

Ifs Life Persons Made Care Take Care Strikes Spares Bowling

Author:Stephen King

“When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.”

Ifs Men Made Alive Equal Mouths Filled Satisfaction Dust Contentment Ambitious Worms Poorest Ambitious Man

Book:Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel

Source: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel

“The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.”

Ifs World Persons Made Covetousness

Book:Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and Character

Source: Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and Character

“During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.”

People Ifs Years Made Done Enough Home Asks Groups Originals Climate Suits Fifteen Elephants Begging Had Enough Fifteen Years Stingy Carthage

Book:The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

Source: The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

“There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force, and every man or set of men will in that case cut and carve for themselves; the consequences of which must be deprecated by all classes of men, who are friends to order, and to the peace and happiness of the country.”

Ifs Men Made Country Reason Law Order Courses Force Community Class Cases Cutting Taste Consequence Every Man Opposition Peace And Happiness

Book:The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799

“If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.”