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"The administration of a country, more than any other human activity, is carried on in the atmosphere of moral compromise."
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"Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people."
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
"Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich."
"They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them."
"A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!"
"Every word of etatistic thought is contradicted by the doctrines of sociology and economics; this is why etatists endeavour to prove that these sciences do not exist. In their opinion, social affairs are shaped by the State. To the law, all things are possible; and there is no sphere in which State intervention is not omnipotent."
"Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO's and board members."
"Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't."
"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."
"A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
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"The true measure of a nation's freedom is its ability to protect the liberties of its citizens."
"I am blunt and uncultured. To me there is only one answer to this questions. That answer is not that you should shut yourselves in colleges and learn history and mathematics while the country is on fire and everybody is fighting freedom's battle. Your place is by the side of your countrymen, who are fighting the freedom's battle."
"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."
"Building a nation requires not just bricks and mortar but the collective determination of its citizens."
"A prosperous nation is built on the foundation of justice, equality, and the well-being of its people."
"The progress of a nation is intricately linked to the empowerment and education of its citizens."
"Nations are not made by mere geographical boundaries; they are forged by the character and aspirations of their people."
"As satyagrahis we should always claim and we did that we are always ready to make peace with our adversaries. As a matter of fact we are always eager for peace and when we found that the door to peace was opened we decided to enter it."
"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."
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