#parties

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A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.


Fredrik Bajer


#association #besetting #cause #collaborate #could

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.


William Henry Ashley


#apprehended #danger #diligence #duty #having

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#america #both #many #men #parties

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.


Brad Bird


#both #centrist #definitely #feel #i

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.


George Eliot


#entertain #grounds #liking #make #make up

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.


Erma Bombeck


#been #companion #dinner #done #go

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.


Lyndon B. Johnson


#i #important #likes #me #parties

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.


Nick Clegg


#avoided #claim #democrats #did #every

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.


Nick Clegg


#agree #blair #brown #committed #country

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.


Nick Clegg


#ballot box #box #constantly #each #gang