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"The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible."
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"Politics is a game where only the strong survive."
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"But nowadays -- Our weakness for the last few years has been the ineffectiveness of the Opposition. This Labour Party has never had the quality of a fighting Opposition. It has just sucked the life out of Radicalism. It has never had the definite idealism of the Whigs and Liberals. 'Give us more employment and slightly higher pay and be sure of our contentment,' says Labour. 'We're loyal. We know our place. But we don't like being unemployed.' What good is that as Opposition? It's about as much opposition as a mewing cat. We mean more than that. I tell you frankly. Our task, I take it, my task, is to reinstate that practical working Opposition which has always been Old England's alternative line of defence... For the good of all of us..."
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"Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied."
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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
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"All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility."
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"The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so. (The proviso is essential, because measures which arouse serious resentment are seldom advantageous, whatever merits they may have otherwise.) The power of the politician, in a democracy, depends upon his adopting the opinions which seem right to the average man. It is useless to urge that politicians ought to be high-minded enough to advocate what enlightened opinion considers good, because if they do they are swept aside for others."
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"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
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"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
Diplomacy
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
Positive
"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."
Aging
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way."
Motivation
"It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity."
Religion
"You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it."
Justice
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
Change
"If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on."
Politics
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
Persistence
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