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Bread and roses – slogan, poem, and song associated with suffrage and labor movements Eat the rich – political slogan associated with anti-capitalism and left-wing politics ; originally traced to Jean-Jacques Rousseau , who is reputed to have said, "When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."
bread and circuses: satisfaction of shallow or immediate desires of the populace at the expense of good policy; also, the erosion of civic duty and the public life in a populace. government in the sunshine : a government which keeps all its records and documents open and easily accessible by the public.
The following is a chronological list of political catchphrases throughout the history of the United States government. This is not necessarily a list of historical quotes, but phrases that have been commonly referenced or repeated within various political contexts.
The speech is often referred to as the "Pound Cake" speech because the following lines of the speech make reference to a pound cake, contrasting common criminals with political activists who risked incarceration during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s: But these people, the ones up here in the balcony fought so hard.
6. “He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.” 7. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” 8. “In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
W. We begin bombing in five minutes; We did it, Joe! We finally beat Medicare; We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
Now here's something hard to believe: The White House, one of the most historically significant buildings in the world -- and the most valuable home in America -- once came close to being a teardown.