"The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery."

Politics, Government, First, Misery, Office

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"The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery."

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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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"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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"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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"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

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"State first, subject second, statesman last."

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"Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts."

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"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."

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"All authority belongs to the people."

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"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

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"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."

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"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."

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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

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"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality [in Europe] producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property,...[One] means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise."

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"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."

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"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

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