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What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

—Havelock Ellis

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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

—H. L. Mencken

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You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

—Milton Berle

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The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

—Rodney Dangerfield

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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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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

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

—Lichty and Wagner

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Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

—Kin Hubbard

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You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

—Ed Meese

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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

—Robert Anton Wilson

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If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

—Jay Leno

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains.

—William Wadsworth

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In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.

—Mogens Jallberg

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