"The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas."

-- Carl Bernstein

#Ideas Quotes #Political Quotes #Independence Quotes

“Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language.”
“Big business has no party and never shall have.”

Source : "Robert Novak: Bush's new salesmen". www.cnn.com. December 13, 2002.
“By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.”
“Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because they have the money, they want to control all of you, .. They want to raise your taxes. It's all going in that direction -- raising your taxes. But I'm here as your warrior, remember that. I want to protect you.”
“At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate in their own terms, but they don't address the actual experience of how one or other aspect of religion becomes existentially meaningful to us in our actual lives. The fact that we ourselves are the subject of investigation makes all the difference.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.”
“Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.”
“I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.”

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