politics

"“…He was averse from shedding human blood, though he destroyed many idolatrous temples, and erected mosques in their stead. He held conversation neither with Nazarenes nor with bramins; nor would he p…"

"To attend a place of worship, to abstain from spirits, to read a serious newspaper and put money in the savings bank, was in 1840 as good an ideal as could be set before a man. To pursue it gave him r…"

"When a government subsidy deprives the child of its dad the government is really subsidizing child abuse."

"Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else."

"Selection of Rubaiyat Rumi in Persian"

"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."

"Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance."

"“In the year AH 817 , Mullik Tohfa, one of the Officers of the King’s government was ennobled by the title of Taj-ool-Moolk, and received a special commission to destroy all idolatrous temples, and es…"

"We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed."

"Jahangir ordered that “a government collector or Jagirdar should not without permission intermarry with the people of the pargana in which he might be” for abduction and forced marriages were common e…"

"Organized mongrel minorities control the government. I am going to fight it to the last ditch. They are not going to Harlemize the country."

"I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor."

"The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes: and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapabl…"

"Official Presidential Campaign Website"

"International indebtedness involves not only the usual slavery of debt, but the interest of the creditor nations in the debtor country."

"Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed."

"radical doctrines to bear on all areas of governmental concern"

"If the next government is sincere in its desire to reach an agreement with Europe, it must try to get more time. If it does not, the British parliament will insist on getting a new postponement. I wil…"

"If ketchup had 1/20th of the carcinogens in a cigarette they'd rip it off the shelves tomorrow, so the government is full of shit when they tell you that they care about you."

"I don't think is in any way inhibited by normal propriety in government."