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Words & Political Language

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

- George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)

Political Language
Daily Media Quotation - a daily selection of political comment from the Australian press
A collection of quotations, not necessarily political
The Political Cliche Site - billed as "An Arsenal of Cliches for the Successful American Politician"
Eulogy on the Dog - The courtroom address of George Vest (1870)

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864)

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