John McCarthy Quotes

• With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

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• When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

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• When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

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• We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

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• There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that’s when he doesn’t forget them.

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• The slogan was ‘Don’t trust anyone over thirty’. Sixty years later the slogan became, ‘Don’t trust anyone over ninety’.

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• The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world’s most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

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• The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is ‘forbidden’, whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is ‘compulsory’.

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• Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

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• Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals’ ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

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• Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

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• Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

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• Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

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• Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

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• Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries’ failure to advance.

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• Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

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• My opinion is that he’s a swindler and you’re a sucker.

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• My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.

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• Language is froth on the surface of thought.

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• It is said that man doesn’t live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

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Birth:	19th July, 1857
Death:	30th March, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

John Jay McCarthy was born in Stoughton, Wisconsin, USA. He was an American Republican politician and lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in 1884 and set up practice in Emerson, Nebraska. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Dixon County in 1890, 1892, and 1894. In 1898 and 1900 he was elected as a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 3rd congressional district from 1903-1907. He continued with his law practice in Ponca, Nebraska.

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