"I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart."
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"I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be."
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"It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks."
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"From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress."
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"Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance."
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"Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him."
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"William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect."
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"My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles."
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"The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern."
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"[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War."
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"Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism."
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"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."
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"You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government."
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"Wall Street has too much wealth and political power."
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"Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."
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"Experts are just trained dogs."
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"The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it."
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"I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective."
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". . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship."
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"Political courage is not political suicide."
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