"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner."
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"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."
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"Everyone's quick to blame the alien."
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"And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense."
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"For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth."
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"Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore."
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"I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field."
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"The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class."
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"A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic."
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"...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged."
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"It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong."
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"It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal."
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"I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one."
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"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it."
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"A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence."
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"Politics is largely a matter of heart."
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"Remember, freedom is always taken, never given."
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"If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal with scientific questions."
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"Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow."
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"To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power."
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