The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation and spread commensurate ideas . . . Facts were not permitted...

If you fail to offer yourself for leadership then accept the blind man who is leading you.

No fim da entrevista, quando o líder cubano [Fidel Castro] já havia discorrido sobre tema variados, a repórter Lucia Newman quis saber a opinião sobre os cubanos presos em Miami ‘acusados de fazer espionagem para...

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17).

This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, ‘When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.’ But the serious critique of Zuma is...

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn’t that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global...

Gov. Christie says ‘New Jersey First.’ State-based Isolationism!

When people think that politics is a joke, they then deserve the jokers that rule them.

The capital of the United States is the home to the best of the worst humanity has to offer. The most corrupt, the most deceitful, the most tyrannical, the most greedy, and the most evil...

It was a roadblock, manned by an officer and several other soldiers. Sivaram and the trishaw driver were ordered out of the vehicle, and I was told to stay where I was. The soldiers held...

Yet isn’t it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn’t some of it a little bit more serious? For Sen. Clinton, something is true if it...

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

Inflation is taxation without representation.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch to meddle in great matters of which their comprehension is usually pretty dim,...

It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

All varieties of the producers’ policy are advocated on the ground of their alleged ability to raise the party members’ standard of living. Protectionism and economic self-sufficiency, labor union pressure and compulsion, labor legislation, minimum...

These were the kids who would take LSD for recreational purposes, who relied upon tape recorders to supply the weird studio effects their music required and who could repeat the cosmic wisdom of the Space...

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.

Assim é, mas a vantagem da igreja é que, embora às vezes o não pareça, ao gerir o que está no alto, governa o que está em baixo.

For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians.

Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great educator. Mostly it teaches, I am afraid, cynicism. But not...

In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is the beginning of making things right.

You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to...

If you use the same formula to solve different problems, you will always get same results

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

The World Trade Center is not a place for domestic or international politics,

Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are frequently influenced more by appearances than by reality.

It is the moral duty of every US voter to guarantee that Barack Hussein Obama is a one-term president.

stick your nose in other people’s business” Is so compulsive and epidemic to human society.

A sheep that walks amongst wolves is called dinner.

In the winter of 1987 India was full of iskeems that had gone awry. Agricultural iskeems, political iskeems, economic iskeems, educational iskeems, stop black money iskeems, attract white tourists iskeems, drinkable water iskeems, animal protection...

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Peace isn’t the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and people…

other side” is wrong. These proclamations appear in many forms, from scathing letters to the editor to frothing-at-the-mouth comments on blogs and internet videos. Although expression and debate are vital parts of policymaking, political speech...

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important – a sense of humour, but Johnson himself will provide many other...

I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And the higher the pretensions of such power, the more...

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states “accountable” for their education performance…In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn’t subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

History has taught us that often lies serve her better than the truth, for man is sluggish and has to be led through the desert for forty years before each step in his development. And...

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can’t imagine someone else’s point of view.

Ball tempering is common in Cricket. Rigging is common in Elections. Whats the big deal? — Najumi Sethi

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.

His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.

One doesn’t commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.