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> [Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-pruden/military-metaphors-are-rarely-exact-but-sending-republicans-against/)

[Wesley Pruden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-pruden/)

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## More by Wesley Pruden

> [Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-pruden/congress-is-the-third-branch-of-government-which-makes-every-one-of/)

[Wesley Pruden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-pruden/)

> [No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-pruden/no-one-and-the-liberal-cognoscenti-least-of-all-wants-to-look-at-why/)

[Wesley Pruden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-pruden/)

> [Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: 'Do it unto others before they do it unto you'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-pruden/washington-honors-the-platinum-rule-above-all-do-it-unto-others/)

[Wesley Pruden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-pruden/)

> [The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-pruden/the-only-argument-this-president-needs-to-persuade-americans-is-that/)

[Wesley Pruden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-pruden/)

> [Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he famously said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-pruden/thomas-jefferson-despised-newspapers-with-considerable-justification/)

[Wesley Pruden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-pruden/)

> [Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving the Constitution,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-pruden/cutting-corners-no-doubt-makes-the-job-easier-for-the-government-but/)

[Wesley Pruden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-pruden/)

> [Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-pruden/military-metaphors-are-rarely-exact-but-sending-republicans-against/)

[Wesley Pruden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-pruden/)

> [If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry Reid get out?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-pruden/if-what-happens-in-las-vegas-is-supposed-to-stay-in-las-vegas-how-did/)

[Wesley Pruden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-pruden/)

> [Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-pruden/greed-has-replaced-religion-as-the-national-religion-and-with-greed/)

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