"To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude."
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
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"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."
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"To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay."
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"The election is not a time to discuss serious issues."
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"Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen."
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"The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed."
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"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
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"It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember."
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"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."
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"There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs."
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"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth."
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"I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents."
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"Extreme justice is extreme injustice."
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"Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible."
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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
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"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."
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"I think there is a demand. The demand is for a radical economic and political restructuring of the world. And most people would say that's impossible. And it may or may not be achieved, but I think that's less important than articulating what a just and fair world can be."
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"The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe."
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"Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else."
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