"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."
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"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all."
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"There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States."
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"If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman."
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"People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being."
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"There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all."
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"Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility."
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"I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine."
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"It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems."
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"He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised."
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"No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"I disagree with the analysis that you've put about what happened in relation to the student demonstrations and protests and the incident with the Prince of Wales' car. We're very clear that we have to separate out the political responsibility from operational responsibility of the police."
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"Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured."
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"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed."
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"The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals."
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"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."
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"Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics."
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