"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
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"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."
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"All I know is that I am not a Marxist."
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"All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them."
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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
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"All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law"
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"Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'."
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"A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation."
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"The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy."
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"The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit."
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"A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few."
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"Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them."
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"Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual."
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"It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life."
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"Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God."
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"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."
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"For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part."
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"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing."
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