"The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home."

-- Thomas Paine

#Home Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.”
“To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.”
“I just love things that serve a duel purpose.”
“My manager always preaches golf comes first.”
“It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it”
“I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.”
“A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
“It is when we think we lead that we are most led.”

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