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"A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman."
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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
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"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau."
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"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
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"The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution."
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"There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. Those verbal associations are always vain for the vital purpose of constraining the tyrant."
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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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"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."
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"A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head."
Heart
"A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman."
Politics
"Liberty has restraints but no frontiers."
Liberty
"The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps."
World
"Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men."
Man
"With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation."
Change
"What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics."
Politics
"We are muddled into war."
War
"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done."
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"Diplomats were invented simply to waste time."
Time
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