Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
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Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."
Plato
Philosopher
"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security."
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"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."
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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right."
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"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
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"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us."
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"Always stand on principle even if you stand alone."
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"Politics have no relation to morals."
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"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
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"The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon."
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"The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery."
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"We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
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"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right."
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"Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom"
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"When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna."
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"Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves."
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"Our destiny is not written for us, but by us."
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"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale."
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"You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength."
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"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
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"My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning."
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"I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
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