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"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."
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"A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over."
"Anon from the castle wallsThe crescent banner falls,And the crowd beholds instead,Like a portent in the sky,Iskander's banner fly,The Black Eagle with double head;And a shout ascends on high,For men's souls are tired of the Turks,And their wicked ways and works,That have made of Ak-HissarA city of the plague;And the loud, exultant cryThat echoes wide and farIs: "Long live Scanderbeg!"
"LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about."
"I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'"
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
"We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution."
"Great change doesn't come with official endorsement."
"I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town."
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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."
"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies."
"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners."
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other."
"In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
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