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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.

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Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.

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A human being is a naturally political [animal].

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

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Some of Donald Trump's gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, those are ones that hopefully he will put to good use on behalf of all the American people.

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.

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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.

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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

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Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers. And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum. That's the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.

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