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"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."
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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."
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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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."
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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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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."
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"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."
God
"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."
Company
"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
Alimentary
"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
Committee
"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
Nature
"That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind."
Progress
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
Emotional
"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
Communication
"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
Man
"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"
Heart
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