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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."
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"All authority belongs to the people."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."
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"Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!"
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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..."
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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."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."
Destiny
"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."
Courage
"Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man."
Philosophy
"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."
Society
"An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it."
Humor
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
Diplomacy
"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."
Wisdom
"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."
Truth
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
Relationship
"Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves."
Life
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