"He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either."
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"The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose."
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"I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it."
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"My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none."
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"I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have."
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"The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has been silent. And that is getting noticed by militants across South Asia."
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"It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents."
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"It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that."
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"Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting."
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"No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount."
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"Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma."
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"I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'"
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"America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home."
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"A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words."
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"If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action."
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"There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from."
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"Politics are a labyrinth without a clue."
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"They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts."
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"The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons."
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"I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church..."
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