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> [A political leader worthy of assassination](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/a-political-leader-worthy-of-assassination/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

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> [In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/in-pierre-elliott-trudeau-canada-has-at-last-produced-a-political/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

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## More by Irving Layton

> [By walking, I found out where I was going.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/by-walking-i-found-out-where-i-was-going/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/time-flames-like-a-paraffin-stove-and-what-burns-are-the-minutes-i/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/progress-of-a-marriage-there-was-a-time-when-you-couldn-t-make-me/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/conscience-self-esteem-with-a-halo/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/it-amazes-me-that-organs-that-piss-can-give-human-beings-such-perfect/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [I have stopped being a misanthrope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/i-have-stopped-being-a-misanthrope/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/my-neighbor-doesn-t-want-to-be-loved-as-much-as-he-wants-to-be-envied/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/since-i-no-longer-expect-anything-from-mankind-except-madness/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/and-me-happiest-when-i-compose-poems-love-power-the-huzza-of-battle/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [A political leader worthy of assassination](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/a-political-leader-worthy-of-assassination/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/only-the-tiniest-fracton-of-mankind-want-freedom-all-the-rest-want/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/we-love-in-another-s-soul-whatever-of-ourselves-we-can-deposit-in-it/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/an-aphorism-should-be-like-a-burr-sting-and-leave-a-little-soreness/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [Idealist: a cynic in the making.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/idealist-a-cynic-in-the-making/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

> [It amazes me that organs thatpiss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-layton/it-amazes-me-that-organs-thatpiss-can-give-human-beings-such-perfect/)

[Irving Layton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-layton/)

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