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«During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
campaign, candidate, political campaign, wondering
«Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.»
«Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallowsJohn Wilkes . . . That sir depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics»
Author: John Wilkes
(Journalist, Politician)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
Earl, Earl of, gallows, John Wilkes, pox, Sir John, The Earl, The Earl of, Wilkes
«Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| About:
Education,
Politics,
War
| Keywords:
Establishing, lasting
«Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.»
Author: Wendell Phillips
(Abolitionist, Orator)
| About:
Politics,
Religion
| Keywords:
breeds, quarrels
«Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.»
«Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
Nixon, Richard, Richard I, Richard Nixon, The White House, White House
«Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Politics
| Keywords:
execution, policeman, The Republic, unofficial, unsalaried, ward
«each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.»
«Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.»
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