Adolphe Thiers Quotes, Political Quotes

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

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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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In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.

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From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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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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You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

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A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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

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Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

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I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

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Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

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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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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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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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Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

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