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...never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many, on their getting warm, becoming rude, & shooting one another. ... When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine; why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ... There are two classes of disputants most frequently to be met with among us. The first is of young students, just entered the threshold of science, with a first view of its outlines, not yet filled up with the details & modifications which a further progress would bring to their knoledge. The other consists of the ill-tempered & rude men in society, who have taken up a passion for politics. ... Consider yourself, when with them, as among the patients of Bedlam, needing medical more than moral counsel. Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially on politics. In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.


Thomas Jefferson


#politics-of-the-united-states #men

My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.


Charles A. Beckwith


#decided #i #lips #men #our

I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end to Muslim resentment against the United States. (Incidentally, if he really does believe this, his lethargy and impotence in the face of Netanyahu's consistent double-dealing is even more culpable.) The Islamist fanatics have their own agenda, and, as in the case of Hamas and its Iranian backers, they have already demonstrated that nothing but the destruction of Israel and the removal of American influence from the region will possibly satisfy them. No, it is more the case that justice—and a homeland for the Palestinians—is a good and necessary cause in its own right. It is also a special legal and moral responsibility of the United States, which has several times declared a dual-statehood outcome to be its objective.


Christopher Hitchens


#barack-obama #benjamin-netanyahu #foreign-policy #hamas #iran

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.


Mark Haskell Smith


#government #hypocrisy #politics #politics-of-the-united-states #truth

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.


John Bolton


#everybody #gets #interests #national #national interests

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.


Lakhdar Brahimi


#because #come #gain #go #intimidating

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.


Paul Bremer


#people #states #these #united #united states

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.


William Labov


#clear #dialects #different #divisions #each

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.


William Labov


#countries #covered #eastern #european #european countries

When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.


Arthur Laffer


#assets #because #cares #country #everyone