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"Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."
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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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"Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace."
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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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"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans."
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"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."
Wisdom
"Travel teaches toleration."
Travel
"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few."
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"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
Relationship
"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."
Leadership
"Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic."
Life
"The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children."
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"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."
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"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."
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