"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
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"Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human."
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"There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on."
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"Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds."
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"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting."
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"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."
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"Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse."
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"Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power."
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"The political establishment, they don't know what to do about Trump because they said, oh, the immigration thing will kill him. First, they said he'll never run, and then he ran. Then they said he'll never file his financial disclosures. He filed and on time. Then they said, he's going to fall flat on his face."
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"The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks."
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"I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena."
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"It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation."
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"Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work."
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"New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths."
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"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
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"America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs."
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"The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes."
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"Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas."
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"The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst."
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"Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you."
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