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Henry B. Adams

"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

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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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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."

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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

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"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"

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"Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!"

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"Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!"

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"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts."
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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
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