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James Harrington

"No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician."

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"No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician."

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

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"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."

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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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"Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."

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"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."

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"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."

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"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."

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"Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad."

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"Right is what benefits a nation, even if it is against the will of the people."

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"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."

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"Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action."
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"The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men."
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"A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man."
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James Harrington
"No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician."
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