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Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.”

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Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Men still have to be governed by deception.”

Men Stills Political Politics Deception Hype

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”

Men Political Time Politics Lips Time Management

Book:Speaking of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Speaking of Abraham Lincoln

“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”

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Author:Franklin P. Adams

“They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”

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Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.”

Men Politics Type Letters Vote Election Stamps

Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.”

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Author:George MacDonald

“A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.”

Men Needs Politics Simple Victim Deception Hype Deceiver

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Men Doe Wisdom Action Choices Opportunity Politics Wise Fool Intelligence Apathy

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”

Men Firsts Politics Ambition Libertarian Secure

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.”

Ifs Men War Done Political Politics Ought Destroyed Injury Vengeance

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.”

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Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”

“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.”

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Book:Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences

Source: Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

“A government of laws, and not of men.”

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Author:John Adams

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.”

Men Love Country Politics Speak Paid Patriotism Patriotic His Love Patriotism In America

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”

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Author:Bernard Baruch

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”

Source: The Law

“The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.”

Men Should Political Lying Politics Betrayal Betray Betrayed Massacres

Book:Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.”

Men Political Turns Fighting Politics Names Loses Battle Defeat Spite

Author:William Morris

“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.”

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Author:George Jean Nathan

“Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

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