"Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me."
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"I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop."
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"At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister. Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history."
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"It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge."
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"As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensatingly increase and the dictator... will do well to encourage that freedom in conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, movies, and radio. It will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate."
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"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."
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"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
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"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."
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"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."
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"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable."
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"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
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"Democracy is "government of, by and for the people"."
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"If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!"
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"The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see."
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"The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom."
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"The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today."
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"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
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"Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principle moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories."
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"I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick."
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"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."
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