"Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists."

-- Alan Bradley

#Politics Quotes

“Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?”

Source : Song: Lions, Tigers and Bears
“And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.8, Penguin
“Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?”

Source : "Seymour Hersh: Man On Fire". Interview with Lakshmi Chaudhry, www.alternet.org. October 26, 2004.
“Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.”
“'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.”
“There is always room at the top - after the investigation.”
“In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now forbid the trafficking in certain drugs, in the sale of poisons, just as we forbid the making of any imprint that suggests a coin or currency, just as experience has demonstrated that men may not make profit out of certain things because of the danger of abuse, so in the gravest of all dangers laws should be passed taking from those who might gain from war or preparations for war every hope that advantage could come to them by such a calamity.”
“You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.”

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