Thomas Reed quotes
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“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”
-- Thomas ReedSource : "Will It Be As Always?" by Henryk A. Kowalczyk, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.
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“One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.”
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“It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.”
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“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”
-- Thomas ReedSource : "Political Insults: Cheap Shots or Do They Play an Important Role in American Politics?" by Rich Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2014.
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“If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.”
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“They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.”
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“There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.”
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“The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.”
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“All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.”
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“If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.”
-- Thomas ReedSource : "Orations and addresses".
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“A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.”
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“The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.”
-- Thomas ReedSource : Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”
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“The only justification of rebellion is success.”
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“Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.”
-- Thomas Reed
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