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“I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.”

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Author:Pete Coors

“If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.”

“Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.”

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Book:The Rights of Man

Source: The Rights of Man

“"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."”

Government Political Politics Capacity

Book:Rights of Man

Source: Rights of Man

“History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.”

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Author:Chalmers Johnson

“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.”

Children Political Spirit Politics Inspire Capacity My Children Length Length Of Life

Author:Rose Kennedy

“Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.”

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Author:George McGovern