Tom Wicker Quotes

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• To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.
• If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the…
• Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as…
• Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy…
• Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more…
• There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.
• Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.
• He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a…
• Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.

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