"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
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"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."
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"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."
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"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."
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"Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world."
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"As government expands, liberty contracts."
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"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"
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"Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear."
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"Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is."
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"The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information."
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"Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself."
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"If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists."
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"The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists."
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"Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable. It is necessary first to pan though all other poetry in order to become a political poet."
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"What one has to do usually can be done."
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"The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies."
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"Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct."
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"When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread."
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"The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths."
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"Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice."
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