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Doe Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.
- [T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious…
- During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows.…
- Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.
- Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?
- When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power…
- Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.
- How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?
- Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
- The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something…
- Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign…
- Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.
More Doe Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi