An Expression of Human Immaturity?

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. – Vera Brittain




The ballot is stronger than the bullet. – Abraham Lincoln



Politics as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams



The buffaloes were the original engineers, as they followed the lay of the land and the run of the water. These buffalo paths became Indian trails, which always pointed out the easiest way across the mountain barriers. The white man followed in these footpaths. The iron trail finished the road. – Gracy Hebard



The first piece of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. – Paul Ehrlich



One trouble with Americans is that we’re fixers rather than preventers. – General James Doolittle

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