"The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity."
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"One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change."
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"The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either."
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"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."
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"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
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"Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy."
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"An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information."
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"There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight."
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"Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry."
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"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions."
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"Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the nature of the offense and the incorrigibility of the offender and more on inappropriate and indefensible considerations: the political and personal inclinations of prosecutors; the defendant's wealth, race and intellect; the race and economic status of the victim; the quality of the defendant's counsel; and the resources allocated to defense lawyers."
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"I think the time is right for organizing and to give Blacks more political - the progressive Blacks, you have to make a distinction - participation, more Blacks in more authoritative positions, in more electoral political positions. But we want the right ones."
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"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."
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"Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy."
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"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."
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"The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them."
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"An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment."
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"Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit."
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"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."
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"Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation."
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