A political war is one in which everyone shoots from the lip.
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- This just in from a Nicholas Notifier up north. Everyone's favorite
farmer and political commentator off the interstate near Chehalis has
just come up with the prize line of his career.
"Limit congressmen to two terms. One in office. One... - I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to
war.
It is not social or political. It is not countries... - All is but lip wisdom which wants experience.
--
Sir Philip... - Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow room is
pleasanter -
and much safer. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's... - Tupper's Political Postulate:
He who walks astride the fence has few directions... - He who walks astride the fence has few directions from which to choose.
Tupper's Political... - A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see,
and hits it... - DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from
private station to political preferment.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - At the well hole one shoots fishes.
The jug is broken and leaks...
From the same category:
- Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
-- Benito Mussolini,
speech, December 13,... - To my mind the old masters are not art;
their value is in their scarcity. ... - Life is a difficult in the country, and it requires a good deal of
forethought to steer the ship,
when you are twelve miles from a lemon. -- Sydney Smith... - What is vice today may be virtue
tomorrow... - If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
Chinese...
