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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."
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"The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?"
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"Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!"
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"National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty."
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"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings."
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"The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff."
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"In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!"
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"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
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"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
Fear
"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."
Leadership
"The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears."
Love
"I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase."
Literature
"The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years."
Politics
"The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music."
Love
"Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit."
Society
"Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."
Art
"The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man."
Man
"If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured."
Man
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