Quotation Collection

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must understand the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine

• freedom
• duty

Nobody succeeds in a big way except by risking failure. William Feather

• success
• failure

As long as we have a government that can exploit peaceful, hardworking Americans on behalf of special interests, as long as it can make or break any American business with (for example) tax policy, politically motivated antitrust prosecutions, and ill-considered regulation, and in general as long as economic winners and losers can be determined in Washington, people will want to assure their share of the loot by influencing the political process through money. Campaign finance reform focuses on the symptom rather than the problem. Ron Paul

• politics
• politicians
• government
• Congress

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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. Abigail Van Buren

• age
• wisdom