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"We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression."
"I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day."
"I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales."
"The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too."
"Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot."
"To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that conservatism is simply a political argument in defense of large accumulations of private property, that expansion, centralization, and accumulation are the tenets of conservatives. From this confusion, from the popular belief that Hamilton was the founder of American conservatism, the forces of tradition in the United States never have fully escaped."
"If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced."
"I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party."
"A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen."
"Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty."
"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government."
"I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us."
"I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department."
"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me."
"My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious."
"If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake."
"Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint."
"Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness."
"The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge."
"I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer."
