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Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

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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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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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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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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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

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Experts are just trained dogs.

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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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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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PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

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I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

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You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

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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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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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