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"The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers."
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"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."

"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."

"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."

"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."

"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."
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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."

"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."

"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."

"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."

"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

"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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