Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power."
Plato
Philosopher
"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?"
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain."
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"It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free."
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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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"No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business."
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."
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"Truth between candid minds can never do harm."
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"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party."
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"It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women…Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically."
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"Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it."
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"I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery."
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"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
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"The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is."
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"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
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"A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things."
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"Politics have no relation to morals."
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"The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts."
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"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
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"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
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"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."
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"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic."
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"The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it."
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