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Bernadette Devlin

"Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom."

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"Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom."

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Akiroq Brost

"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

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"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

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"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

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"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

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"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."

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"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."

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"Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!"

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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."

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"I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence."
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"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
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"One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!"
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"My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done."
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"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
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"It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament."
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Bernadette Devlin
"Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom."
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