"Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself."

Politics, Science, Society, Progress

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"Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself."

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"Politicians look for interests not people."

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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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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."

George Orwell, British Author

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"In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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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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"Tell me what is right and I will fight for it."

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"We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study."

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"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world."

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"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."

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"Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place."

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"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."

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"Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country."

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"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."

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"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation."

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"Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling."

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