They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
-
Similar:
| Quote 4715 | The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from ... |
| Quote 3872 | People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. |
| Quote 12888 | People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Thei... |
| Quote 13165 | They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They bl... |
| Quote 13773 | I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression, and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders... |
| Quote 14024 | Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addi... |
| Quote 12866 | Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share be... |
| Quote 11539 | Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them at... |
| Quote 11392 | ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, bu... |