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Criticism Of Politics

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But what is Whiggery?
A leveling, rancorous, rational sort of mind
That never looked out of the eye of a saint
Or out of drunkard’s eye.

William Butler Yeats

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The constitutional Presidency—as events so apparently disparate as the Indochina War and the Watergate affair showed—has become the imperial Presidency.

Arthur M. Schlesinger (Jr.)

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Work is done by those [employees] who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

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The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, had all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading.

Richard Hofstadter

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The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

Henry Adams

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He [William Gladstone] speaks to me as if I was a public meeting.

Alexandrina Victoria (Queen Victoria)

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