Quotes

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  • It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. – Will Durant

  • A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. – Bill Vaughan

  • Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. – Joseph Stalin

  • Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. – Douglas Adams

  • A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. – P. J. O’Rourke

  • A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw

  • I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. – Henry David Thoreau

  • Personally, I would not give a fig for any man’s religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility. – S. Parkes Cadman

  • Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark than a moral. – John Burroughs

  • Only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only after the last tree has been cut down, only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. – Unknown

  • The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. – Zeno of Citium

  • In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. – Margaret Atwood