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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.”

Years Said Country Running Wanted Father Politics Capacity Years Ago Breweries

Author:Pete Coors

“A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.”

Years Funny Politics Years Ago Mere Beach Forty Volleyball Bureaucrats Volley Beach Volleyball

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.”

“There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.”

“Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.”

“Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.”

Needs Years Wisdom Politics Economy Land Hundred Years Ago Wide Liberalism Distribution Abraham Homestead Act

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”

Men World Years Political Politics This World Years Ago Gentle Greek

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.”

Years Littles Government Political Three Politics Liberty Four Society Thousand Understood Years Ago Thousand Years Standstill

Author:John Adams

“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”

Ifs Should Years Play Today Political Politics Standards Years Ago Radical Racist Judged

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”

Years Politics Four Years Ago Four Years Better Off

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.”

Years Looks Has Beens Politics Years Ago Flags Radicalism Dachau

Author:Tony Benn

“I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris”

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Author:Tony Benn

“There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.”

Years Philosophy Action Law Politics Social White Principles Millions Economic Politician Concepts Years Ago Ants Bolsheviks

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.”