"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."
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"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it."
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"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."
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"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt."
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"It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct."
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"Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment."
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"The State is the coldest of all cold monsters."
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"The new political gospel: public office is private graft."
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"No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live."
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"All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best."
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"Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible."
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"Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies."
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"From politics it was an easy step to silence."
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"Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries."
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"The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination."
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"The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year."
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"The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt."
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"Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans."
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"Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion."
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"We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve."
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