"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."

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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."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

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

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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you."

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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

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

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

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

"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

Explore more quotes by Nikita Khrushchev

"He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste."

"But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you."

"I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you."

"Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder."

"What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?"

"What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying."

"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!"

"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."

"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."

"We say the name of God, but that is only habit."