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“A fool and his money are soon elected.”

“I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.”

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Author:James A. Garfield

“Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.”

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Author:Clement Attlee

“I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.”

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Author:Stendhal

“I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius

Source: The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius

“Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.”

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Author:Frank Dane

“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.”

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Author:Franklin P. Adams

“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli