"Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote."

Politics, Choice, Decision, Power, Responsibility

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"Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote."

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Politics, Democracy, Freedom, Commitment, Liberty

"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Politics, Economy, Corruption, Society

"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Politics, Land, Empire, Hatred, Longing

"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Politics, Liberty, People, Education, Power

"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

Stephen Harper, Canadian Politician

Politics, Canada, Events, Influence

"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."

John Fowles, English Novelist

Politics, Art, Reality, Truth

"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

Marcy Kaptur, American Politician

Politics, Class, Middleclass

"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

Politics, Beginning, End

"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."

Carl Levin, American Politician

Politics, Americans, Country, President, Problems

"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."

John Boehner, American Politician

Politics, Aggression, Day, First, Israel

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"There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same."

Emotion

"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

Death

"His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin."

Symbolism

"One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right."

Reflection

"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

Duty

"On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong."

War

"Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities."

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."

"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."

"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."

"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."

"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."

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"There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same."

"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

"His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin."

"One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right."

"A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands."

"Wolves and women wed for life."

"Hard hands and no sense of humor makes for a bad marriage."

"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

"On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong."

"Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities."