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RADICAL⁠—one who goes too far.
CONSERVATIVE⁠—one who does not go far enough.
REACTIONARY⁠—one who does not go at all.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Speech to Kansas Society of New York (23 January 1911) — Wilson’s definition of different groups, PWW 22:389
The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (2012), p. 83
- America
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. Mencken1880–1956A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
- Clever Jabs
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Germaine Greerborn 1939Article “Abortion”, The Sunday Times (21 May 1972)
- Abortion
Solvency is maintained by means of the national debt, on the principle, “If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882English Traits (1856), Ability
- Economics
Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Human, All Too Human (1878), Aphorism 579, tr. R. J. Hollingdale
- Thinking
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Homily at Radom, Poland (4 June 1991)
- Abortion
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
- Charity
- Economics
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (16 February 1890)
- Economics
- Money
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to James Madison (30 January 1787); referring to Shays’ Rebellion Lipscomb & Bergh ed. 6:65
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Elias Shipman and others of New Haven (12 July 1801)
I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.
Friedrich Hayek1899–1992Nobel Banquet Speech (1974)
- Economics
I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Plumer (21 July 1816)
- Economics
- Government
If you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
Milton Friedman1912–2006America’s Drug Forum interview (1991)
- Economics
- Government