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Interests Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their…
- It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but…
- I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We…
- We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and…
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- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like… — Alec Baldwin
- I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver… — Tammy Baldwin
- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where… — Henry Adams
- Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the… — Warren Beatty
- An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare… — Felix Adler
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought… — Ambrose Bierce
- Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of… — John Boehner
- Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. — John Bolton
- There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical… — John Bolton