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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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"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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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
Military
"A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit."
Inspirational
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings."
History
"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
Humor
"Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought."
Communication
"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."
Society
"He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience."
Leadership
"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."
Leadership
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
Contentment
"Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors."
Politics
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