"Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best"
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"The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money."
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"Reading musses up my mind."
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"There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself."
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"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
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"[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)"
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"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
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"We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly."
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"There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived."
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"Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority."
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"To rule is easy, to govern difficult."
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"So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt."
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"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
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"Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged."
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"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement."
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"The art of governing mankind by deceiving them."
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"Take it from me, every vote counts."
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"...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for."
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"The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away."
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"In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips."
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