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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.


Edmund Burke


#error #general #loudest #most #popular

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.


Edmund Burke


#direction #dress #effect #end #follow

I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, 'That's it.'


Brooke Burns


#been #bright #did #dive #done

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.


George H. W. Bush


#away #blowing #blown #blown away #breeze

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.


George H. W. Bush


#could #exaggeration #go #say #way

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.


George H. W. Bush


#ago #always #between #cycle #differences

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'


Samuel Butler


#inscription #kitten #literary #man #name

General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place.


John Buford


#artillery #attempted #fight #force #found

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.


Bjorn Ulvaeus


#average #come #first #human #human rights

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.


Vincent Bugliosi


#america #betrayal #bush #deliberately #election