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I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

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It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

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Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that.

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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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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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The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

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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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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

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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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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

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Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

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

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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

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I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

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