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Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

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War is just one more big government program. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. ↗

— Barney Frank

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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. ↗

— Socrates

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ↗

— Socrates

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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. ↗

— Socrates

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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. ↗

— Hans Frank

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