"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing."

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption."

Steven Magee, British Author

Politics, Corruption, Government, Truth, Power

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

Townsend Harris, American Businessman

Politics, Open, Trade

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Politics, Danger, War, Power

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

Politics, Society, America, Example

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"History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose."

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"The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat."

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"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

"The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption."

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

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"Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that."

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"A committee is an animal with four back legs."

"Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love."

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."

"History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose."

"The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat."

"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing."