"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."
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"For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future."
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"A human being is a naturally political [animal]."
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"The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity."
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"So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions."
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"There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. I felt I could never take time out for myself. Now I feel I owe it to myself to develop in ways I've been putting off all my life."
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"Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible under a free economy -- and a man's position is determined, not by his productive ability and achievement, but by political pull and force. Under both systems, sacrifice is invoked as a magic, omnipotent solution in any crisis -- and "the public good" is the altar on which victims are immolated."
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"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy."
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"It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist."
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"Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding."
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"If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism."
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"There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials."
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"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."
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"Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad."
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"He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester."
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"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty."
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"At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European Union. And that has happened."
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"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy."
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"Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises."
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"If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system."
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