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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

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With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.

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Over my tenure as governor, I have come not only to respect the political muscle of the Federation; I've come to respect the brains. All of us depend on your efforts and energies.

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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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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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

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The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

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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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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.

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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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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

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After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

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Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

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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 going to require numerous IRA agents.

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