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Antiwar

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What political principles do you use, how do they apply, and where did you pick them up ... at?

I'm talking about short sayings.

We're looking for good ones, so don't post ones you don't believe in.


Here's a fancy term that might come in handy for this thread:

disabuse (someone or oneself) of (something)

To stop someone or oneself from continuing to believe something that is false.

After being so ill, I had to disabuse myself of the notion that work is more important than my health.
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Everyone eats. Everyone has a right to at least basic shelter. Everyone votes. Everyone has recourse to the law.

That's about it.
 
I could post some, around my view that politics should try to help people have freedom and prosperity broadly, but it sounds like you want 'quotes'.

So, I'll mention two quotes I have often posted.

Anonymous: "Politicians have to LOOK good to voters, and DO good for donors."

Louis Brandeis: "Society can have great concentration of wealth, or it can have democracy, but it cannot have both."
 
Antiwar said:
What political principles do you use, how do they apply, and where did you pick them up
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Respect, my key political principle, for other views (important note: opinion is not acceptable in the face of fact)

I apply it by not attempting a coup if my prefered candidate loses.

I picked up respect as a guiding philosophy through accrued wisdom.
 
"You need to be ready to lose an election to be worthy of winning an election."
-- George Will
 
Don't spend more than you take in.

Benjamin Franklin — 'When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.'

Be kind.
 
Luce said:
Everyone eats. Everyone has a right to at least basic shelter. Everyone votes. Everyone has recourse to the law.

That's about it.
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Good.
 

Good.

No, they don't have to be quotes.
 
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