"Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage."
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"Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage."
"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
"There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men."
"Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married."
"One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex."
"I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office."
"We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight."
"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle."
"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
"Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy."
"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."
"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language."
"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men."
"Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare."
"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."
"The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. The exotic Scythian lifestyle fueled the Greek imagination and led to an outpouring of myths about fierce Amazons, 'the equals of men."
"My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead."
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
"Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."
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