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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

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My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

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Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

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From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

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Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

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Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

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If the East Timorians decide to revolt, Im sure Ill have a statement.

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If we want to really reduce foreign influence on our elections, then we better think about how to make sure that our political process, our political dialogue is stronger than it's been.

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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

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My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

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The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

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I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

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The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

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She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal - Antonio.

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