"All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter."

Politics, Government, Compromise, Humanity, Ethics

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."

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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

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"Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"

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"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."

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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

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"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."

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"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

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"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

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"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."

"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

"Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in."

"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"

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"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

"To innovate is not to reform."

"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

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"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."

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