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"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good."
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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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"Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace."
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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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"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement."
Perfectionism
"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."
Education
"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter."
Love
"If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone."
Job
"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
Politics
"If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government."
Government
"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it."
Business
"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
Ambition
"The future has a way of arriving unannounced."
Future
"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
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