All Quotes
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.Clement Atlee
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.H. L. Mencken
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.Oscar Levant
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.Thomas Pickering
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.James Thurber
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.Alfred A. Knopf
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.Frank Leahy