Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization.When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts.
To err is human; to blame it on the other party is politics.
Harold Macmillan held his party together by not allowing his left wing to see what his right wing was doing.
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
The sooner every party breaks up the better.
Labour is the Party of law and order in Britain todaytough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.
Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!
The party's over, it's time to call it a day.
Party is organized opinion.
Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
Some of us will fight and fight again to save the party we love.We will fight and fight againtobring back sanityand honestyand dignity, so that our party, with its great past, may retain its glory and its greatness.
Poetryisnotanexpressionofthepartyline.It'sthattimeof night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
A great partyought nottobe brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proved liar.
He serves his party best who serves his country best.
If I'dseenmeataparty,I'dneverhavegoneupandmet me.
Honour is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Heard there was a party.Came.
While I cannot take time off to name all the men in the State Department whohavebeennamedasmembers of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party, and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
When a man reaches old age, he will die and the same is true of a party.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessaryelements of a healthystate of political life.
The Conservatives, as being by the law of theirexistence the stupidest party.
Party on, dude!
'Who controls the past,'ran the Party slogan,'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
The Holy Spirit is the invisible third party who stands between me and the other, making us mutually aware.
After three general election victories, leading the only party with clear policies, resolutely carried out, I intend to continue.
Morality is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger party.
Party platforms are contracts with the people.
The party must protect itself against the activities of small groups of inflexible political persuasionhaving in common only their arrogant dogmatism I have no wish to lead a party of political zombies.
A constant effort to keep a party together, without sacrificing either principle or the essentials of basic strategy, is the very stuff of political leadership. Macmillan was canonized for it.
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