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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after theyre

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after theyre dead. – Leo Rosten

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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. – Leo Rosten

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strength
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Leo Rosten
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The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. – Leo Rosten

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Martin Luther King Day
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. – Maggie Gallagher

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Politics

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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Politics

Politics isnt just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. – Sarah Palin

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Politics

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. Its authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys. – Thomas Frank

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Politics

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