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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites".

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

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

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.