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*All the believers agreed
to hold everything in common: they began to sell their property and
possessions and distribute to everyone according to his need.
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-Acts 2:44-45
NIV
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Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a
rich person on television?
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-Art Buchwald
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~Treason doth never
propser: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
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-John Harrington
Epigrams, 1591
Bk. 4, no. 5
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*Why don't
the candidates just go ahead and drop their shorts so we can see for ourselves
what they've got, who's the bigger, better man. Elect big dick, he's calm,
he's collected, he's the winner all around. You know it. But because we
can't see it, because we're so gullible, the shirvely dick always wins.
Why? Because he fights, he overcompensates, he competes because it all means
so damn much to him.
War is a circle jerk.
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-A.M. Homes
The End of Alice, 1996
Chapter 4
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In a republican nation, whose citizens are
to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning
becomes of the first importance.
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-Thomas Jefferson
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Whoever desired to found a state and give it
laws must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to
display their vicious nature.
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-Niccolo Machiavelli
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*Constitutional monarchy,
or cabinet rule, Hobbes compared to a game of tennis played from a
wheelbarrow with several men holding each handle.
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-Wallace I. Matson
A New History Of Philosophy: Volume II, Modern, 1987
Ch. 34 : Hobbes, "The Social Contract"
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There are always too many Democratic
congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S.
congressmen.
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-Laurence J. Peter
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Under capitalism man exploits man; under
socialism the reverse is true.
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-Polish proverb
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I am not part of the problem. I am a
Republican.
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-Dan Quayle
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*All political systems and
theories are based on and derived from some ethical theory; the laws
of a society reflect its dominant moral code.
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence to John Hospers (academic philosopher), April 29,1961
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 7, "Letters to a Philosopher"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's
someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist?
It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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-Ronald Reagan
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*Once, during
a vigorous discussion on the relative merits of the two political systems
[communism and democracy], Ellie had boasted that she had been free to
march in front of the White House protesting American involvement in the
Vietnam War. Vaygay [a Russian] replied that in the same period he had
been equally free to march in front of the Kremlin protesting American
involvement in the Vietnam War.
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-Carl Sagan
Contact, 1985
Part I : The Message, Chapter 7, "The Ethanol in W-3"
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Democracy is two wolves and one sheep voting
on what's for dinner.
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-Unknown
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I finally understand what 'politics' means.
All you have to do is look at the word. 'Poly' in Greek means 'many,' and
'tics' in Greek means 'blood-suckers.'
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-Unknown
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