"An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind."
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"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."
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"The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another."
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"Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful."
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"No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections."
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"Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt."
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"Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide."
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"Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself."
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"In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all."
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"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."
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"Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders)."
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"It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected."
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"An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes."
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"That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part."
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"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell."
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"They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will."
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"The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world."
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"Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public"
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"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
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"If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party."
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