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T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

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I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

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Our nation must come together to unite.

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

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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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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

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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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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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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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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.

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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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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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The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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