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"There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."
"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."
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"They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) " not only are they better, but they have a "better time, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can't bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated " it seems to me just to stink of lies."
"Oppression is opposition."
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"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."
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"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."
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