"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."

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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."

Ilona Andrews, American Writer

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"All authority belongs to the people."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."

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"To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed."

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"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."

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"There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free."

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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."

"All authority belongs to the people."

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."

"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."

"Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."

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"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."

"To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed."

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."

"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."

"Never answer a question from a farmer."

"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."

"National isolation breeds national neurosis."

"There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free."

"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."