"But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey."

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"A French politician without a mistress is like a sheriff without a gun—people think he has no firepower."

— Stephen Clarke

Literature1958

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"The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones."

— Roman Dmowski

Politics1864–1939

#power

"Whoever voluntarily undertakes the necessary office of rearing and educating, obtains the parental power without generation."

— Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)

Philosophy1694–1746

#power

"The power of making laws was long vested in those—and still is vested in their descendants—who followed no trade but war, and knew no handicraft but robbery and plunder."

— Thomas Hodgskin

Politics1787–1869

#justice