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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

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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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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

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At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

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Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

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I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

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There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

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Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

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A human being is a naturally political [animal].

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There ought to be limits to freedom.

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The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

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It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce.

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The question is: How do we succeed in Iraq? And you don't succeed by leaving before the mission is complete, like some in this political process are suggesting.

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