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***PAST POLITICAL WIT & WISDOM:  PAGE TWO***
            In America anyone can become president.  That is one of the risks you take.  Adlai Stevenson
            I'm the only President you've got.  LB Johnson
           Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million?  If so, something has happened to the gene pool.  B. McKenzie
           Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."  Lillian Carter
           Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence.  This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.  Sloan Wilson.
           Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.  Frank Leahy

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.  T. S. Elliot
Hanlon's razor:  Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.  A. Bloch
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.  Henry Kissinger
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.  Sen. Orrin Hatch
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect.  M. Twain
Always decry the time in which you live; it is a proof of vitality.  H. Belloc
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.  H. L. Mencken
If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy.  God will forgive you, but the bureaucracy won't.  Admiral H. Rickover
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.  Eugene McCarthy
If the copying machines that came along later had been here during the Second World War, I'm not sure the allies would have won. 
We'd have drowned in paper.  A. Dickey

The most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you."  Ronald Reagan
This is the essential fact:  The government did not know what it was doing.  Daniel Moynihan
No man's life, liberty and property are safe when the legislature is in session.  Gideon Tucker, 1866
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.  R. Reagan
If we don't stand for something, we will fall for anything.  Irene Dunne
If you need a friend in Washington, get a dog.  H. S. Truman
When all else fails, tell the truth.  Donald Regan
When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. Wm. Blake

I never did give anybody hell  I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.  Harry Truman

Tell them to go to hell, but put it so they won't be offended.  I. Eisenhower

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.  B. Gracian
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. A. Einstein

Old soldiers never die, just young ones.  Anon.

Never confuse wishes with facts.  Edward Flynn
Fundamentally, public opinion wins wars. D. W. Eisenhower
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.  Vernon Law
It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country... in wars far away.  The imagination plays a trick.  We see these soldiers in our minds as old and wise.  We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired.  But most were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives -- the one they were living and the one they would have lived.  When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers.  They gave up their chance to be revered old men.  They gave up everything for their country, for us.  All we can do is remember.  R. Reagan
To believe in the heroic makes heroes.  B. Disraeli

Trust your hopes not your fears.  David Mahoney


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