"A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker."

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Source : "LIFE" Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, (p. 48), August 5, 1946.

H. L. Mencken

#Freedom Quotes #Men Quotes #Order Quotes

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
“Americans just don't understand dry wit.”
“There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.”

Source : "So Far, Ryan’s Legacy Lives in Words, Not Deeds" By William C. Rhoden, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2011.
“Nothing is or can be accidental with God.”
“The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.”

Source : "Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, October 2010.
“For 365 days I went in between the legs of many women”
“When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.”
“To create art means to be crazy alone forever.”

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