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"The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers."
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"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations."
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"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."
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"Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup."
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"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
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"Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it."
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"There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument."
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"I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it."
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
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"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
Politics
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Power
"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men."
Man
"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."
Faith
"Learn as much by writing as by reading."
Reading
"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."
Authority
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
Government
"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought."
Power
"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."
Freedom
"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."
Life
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