"Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic."

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"Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic."

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Politics, Power, Government, Class, Wealth

"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

Politics, Freedom, Choice, Autonomy

"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Politics, Peace, War, Values, Question

"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Politics, Government, Corruption, Stupidity

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Politics, Defense, Terrorism, Civilization

"The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption."

Steven Magee, British Author

Politics, Corruption, Government, Truth, Power

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

Townsend Harris, American Businessman

Politics, Open, Trade

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

Politics, Change, Nations, Poverty

"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Politics, Danger, War, Power

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

Politics, Society, America, Example

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"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory."

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"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

"The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption."

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

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"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory."

"Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them."

"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand."

"This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?"

"Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age."

"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."

"There are thoughts we must not think."

"World history is tragic."

"Human life is beyond comprehension."

"People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies."