"Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals."
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
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"Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?"
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"If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary."
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"... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor."
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"I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart."
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"From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress."
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"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."
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"Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him."
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"William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect."
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"The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern."
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"Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism."
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"The Nazi signs have got to stop. If you're in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign saying that 'Bush is Hitler,' forget the peace thing for a second and beat his ass, because he is not Hitler."
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"If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country."
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"I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics."
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"They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done."
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"He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal."
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"Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself."
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"They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will."
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