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"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them."
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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!"

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

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

"Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!"

"Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!"
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"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."

"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."

"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."

"Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action."
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