"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen."
― George MacDonald
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― George MacDonald
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- "Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."
- "Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
- "When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
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- "The worst men often give the best advice."― Francis Bacon
- "Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family."― Kin Hubbard
- "I don’t want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world."― Mitt Romney