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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
"Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written."
"The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it."
"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"
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"In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour."
"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."
"The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher."
"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
"Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed."
"Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come."
"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."
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