Ambrose Bierce | power
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Ambrose Bierce | power
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Ambrose Bierce | politics
Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Ambrose Bierce | politics
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Ambrose Bierce | politics
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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