Elections are won by men and ...

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
 Franklin P. Adams

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.
 Franklin P. Adams
Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!
 Franklin P. Adams
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
 Franklin P. Adams
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
 Franklin P. Adams
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
 Franklin P. Adams