"No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed."
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"All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion."
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"[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot."
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"That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?"
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"When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other."
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"At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender."
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"Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe."
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"For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future."
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"An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters."
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"A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed."
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"Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened."
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"Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well."
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"The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'."
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"The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved."
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"The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union."
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"The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty."
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"The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached."
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"His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it."
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"It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution."
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"The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon."
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