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"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."
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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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"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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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
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"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."
Politics


"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"
Family


"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame."
Fame


"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."
Friendship


"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
Existence


"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!"
Man


"Dare to be honest and fear no labor."
Fear


"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."
Identity


"And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation."
Creation


"Suspense is worse than disappointment."
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