"Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts."
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"An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
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"As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences."
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"We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it."
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"This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country."
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"Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again."
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"There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs."
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"We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense."
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"There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate."
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"It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember."
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"Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible."
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"Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope."
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"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
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"Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact."
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"Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road."
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"No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins."
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"War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral."
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"The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race."
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"Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest."
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"You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose."
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