Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country
Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I MAY do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I OUGHT to do.
Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
Law is common force organized to prevent injustice.
But a conflict of forces requires nothing so much as brave men; and of these, I believe, the larger number is with us, and with those who share our danger.
You have a thousand cavalry, and infantry as many as any one can desire, and three hundred ships.
My own belief is that our cause, the cause of justice, and its supporters, will prove stronger in every emergency than the traitor and the foreigner.