"A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision."
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"There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political."
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"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged."
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"The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience."
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"The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom."
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"The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection."
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"No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six."
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"We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not."
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"The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles."
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"I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them."
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"The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion."
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"The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith."
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"It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself."
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"One insult pocketed soon produces another."
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"No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it."
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"I don't think you want to preach to people. I don't think In A Valley Of Violence, and the same with The Sacrament, there's a social commentary and a political element to both the films, but it's not like, "Think this because I think this.""
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"The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in 1787, “a little rebellion every now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical one."
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"Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self."
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"A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it."
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"Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive."
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