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"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
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"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."
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"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic."
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"The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it."
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"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
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"Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves."
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"African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing."
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"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make."
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"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
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"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
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"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
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"If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms."
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"In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake."
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"That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
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"The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little."
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"Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power."
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"To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying."
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"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right."
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"Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold."
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