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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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"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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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."
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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."
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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."
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"The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them."
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
Reflection
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
Perception
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
Government
"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
Existence
"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."
Literature
"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
Marriage
"I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs."
Life
"In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one."
War
"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."
Wisdom
"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends."
Morality
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