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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
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"Politicians look for interests not people."

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."

"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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"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."

"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."
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