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"As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches."
"The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy."
"Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing."
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread."
"If you're explaining, you're losing."
"The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life."
"Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety."
"What Washington needs is adult supervision."
"A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states."
"It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice."
"I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong"
"A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up."
"Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm."
"To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds."
"Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it."
"Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle."
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time."
"No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins."
"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."
"Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention "the people," the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset... The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms... The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it "shall not be infringed.""
