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"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible."
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"Politics is a game where only the strong survive."
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"But nowadays -- Our weakness for the last few years has been the ineffectiveness of the Opposition. This Labour Party has never had the quality of a fighting Opposition. It has just sucked the life out of Radicalism. It has never had the definite idealism of the Whigs and Liberals. 'Give us more employment and slightly higher pay and be sure of our contentment,' says Labour. 'We're loyal. We know our place. But we don't like being unemployed.' What good is that as Opposition? It's about as much opposition as a mewing cat. We mean more than that. I tell you frankly. Our task, I take it, my task, is to reinstate that practical working Opposition which has always been Old England's alternative line of defence... For the good of all of us..."
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"Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied."
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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
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"All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility."
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"The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so. (The proviso is essential, because measures which arouse serious resentment are seldom advantageous, whatever merits they may have otherwise.) The power of the politician, in a democracy, depends upon his adopting the opinions which seem right to the average man. It is useless to urge that politicians ought to be high-minded enough to advocate what enlightened opinion considers good, because if they do they are swept aside for others."
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"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
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"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
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"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
Politics
"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."
History
"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."
Change
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
Evil
"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."
Power
"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
Marriage
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
Strength
"To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others."
Hurt
"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
Peace
"A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician."
Dream
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