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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925Cross of Gold (1896)
- Money
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
Enoch Powell1912–1998Enoch Powell, Joseph Chamberlain (1977), p. 151
- Failure
All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies.
Doris Lessing1919–2013Salon interview (1997)
- Enemies
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry1934–2026Part of an endorsement statement for The Dying of the Trees (1997) by Charles E. Little
- Nature
All socialism involves slavery.
Herbert Spencer1820–1903The Man versus the State (1884), “The Coming Slavery”
- Government
There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.
Aneurin Bevan1897–1960Resignation speech in the House of Commons (23 April 1951)
- Hope
The record is clear, printing money doesn’t create jobs, it only creates more inflation.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to Conservative Trade Unionists (Annual Conference) (1 November 1980)
- Economics
- Money
We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
Karl Popper1902–1994The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), Vol. 1, Notes to the Chapters: Ch. 7, Note 4
- Freedom
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Campaign speech at High Wycombe (27 November 1832), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 1 (1882)
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924The New Freedom (1913), Section VIII: “Monopoly, Or Opportunity?”, p. 185
- Economics
- Money
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”
Enoch Powell1912–1998Speech at Birmingham (“Rivers of Blood”), 20 April 1968
If it’s a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Address at the National Convention Banquet of the Americans for Democratic Action (May 17, 1952)
- Clever Jabs
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “Revenge”, p. 141
- Christianity
- Good & Evil
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.
Milton Friedman1912–2006The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory (1970)
- Economics
- Money
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Letter to his brother Edgar Newton Eisenhower (8 November 1954)
- Government