Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Every dog must have his day.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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