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"People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics."
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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."
"Politicians look for interests not people."
"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."
"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."
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"But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war."
"There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours."
"It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq."
"It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching."
"The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake."
"Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe."
"There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills."
"We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour."
"No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors."
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