I’ve been thinking of this quote lately, and I’ve posted it two times before but I was looking through some posts from a year ago this month and found it. “In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of [...]
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.” -H. L. Mencken
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.” -G. K. Chesterton
“A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.” -Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt predicted the first decade of the 21st century all the way from the first decade of the 20th. “The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” -Theodore Roosevelt
“This is a five-spiral crash, boys.” -George W. Bush (In reference to the McCain campaign for president, from Matt Latimer’s forthcoming book)
“Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ” -Richard M. Nixon
“Frankly, I don’t mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.” -Senator Edward M. Kennedy (RIP 1932-2009)
“the worst and most vile form of political hate speech.” -Ed Gillespie (Former Republican National Committee Chairman in 2004 referring to comparison of President George W. Bush and Adolph Hitler.)
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