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"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."

"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect."

"If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."

"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves."

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."

"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself."

"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."

"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement."
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