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“A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.”

Moments Government Fall Politics Born Loses Power Shining

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.”

Moments Politics Party Issues Republican Vote Bases Independent Democrat Casts Loyalty Candidates Assessment

Author:Walter Cronkite

“In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment.”

Moments Character Political Politics Party Struggle Terrible Cost Succeed Majority Various Deceit Expenses Political Parties Cunning Supremacy Shady Trickery

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.”

“... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.”

Men May Important Country Moments Stories Government Political Politics Fear Cities Struggle Office Men And Women Surface Suspects Delightful Clerks Underpaid

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.”

Years Mind Moments Political Courses Politics Decision Influence Events Office Hundred Critical Corny Commonplace Critical Moments

Book:Thomas Hardy

Source: Thomas Hardy

“As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past--to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights.”

Moments Government Past House Politics Justice Rights Balance Reflection Majority Equality Mood Preserves Minorities Senate Delicate Continuity Whim

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.”

Moments Politics Democracy Danger Dull

Author:Lord Hailsham

“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.”

Persons Moments Form Politics Imagination Objects Theory Favors Love Life Traits

Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.”

Life Moments Lying Politics Society Acceptance Accepted Discrimination Waking Inferiority Dominating Inferiority Complex Anti Discrimination Hellhounds

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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.”

Men Moments Political Desire Suffering Politics Simple Tricks Yield

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli