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Eugene McCarthy, fully Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
Eugene McCarthy, fully Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.
Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary watch, he turns his eyes toward the southern cross, burning luridly above the tempest-vexed ocean. As the midnight approaches, the southern cross begins to bend, the whirling worlds change their places, and with starry finger-points the Almighty marks the passage of time upon the dial of the universe, and though no bell may beat the glad tidings, the lookout knows that the midnight is passing and that relief and rest are close at hand. Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.
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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
After four centuries, Montaigne's curious genius still has that effect on his readers and, time and again, one finds in his self-portrait one's own most brilliant aperçus (the ones that somehow we forgot to write down and so forgot) restored to us in his essays—attempts—to assay—value—himself in his own time as well as, if he was on the subject, all time, if there is such a thing.
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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
But it wasnÂ’t until I was well into my twenties and had Jewish friends that I heard about guilt.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
There is not one human problem that could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
Eugene McCarthy, fully Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
I came from a guiltless world as far as sex went — the world I grew up in was Southern, Washington and political. Everyone in my world did absolutely everything. I am speaking now of the Thirties. No one I knew denied himself anything. Of course, there was a great deal of care about appearances. People in public life had to be careful.
Eugene McCarthy, fully Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
We are the United States of amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarized republic. The founding fathers hated two things, one was monarchy and the other was democracy, they gave us a constitution that saw to it we will have neither. I don't know how wise they were.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.
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