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Politics Quotes
"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
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"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."
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"Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs."
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"Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."
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"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
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"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America."
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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
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"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
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"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
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"I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election."
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"One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to."
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"No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states."
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"Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave."
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"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
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"We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism."
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"You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe."
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"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
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"That government is best which governs least."
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"Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it."
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"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads."
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"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
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"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people."
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"A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail."
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"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
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"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."
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"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
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"So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?"
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"Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions."
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"Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown."
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"There are no more liberals They've all been mugged."
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"In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization."
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"A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence."
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