"I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me."
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"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent."
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"A Constitution should be short and obscure."
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"High politic is only common sense applied to great things."
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"Politics ruins the character."
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"In politics a week is a very long time."
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"....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power."
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"....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease."
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"Freedom is participation in power."
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"First you win the argument, then you win the vote."
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"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles."
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"Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity."
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
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"You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!"
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"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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"When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality."
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"If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free."
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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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