"There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy."
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"Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere."
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"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner."
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"He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."
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"No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap."
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"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."
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"Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics."
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"We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that."
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"If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none."
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"Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us."
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"The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion."
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"There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so."
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"There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around."
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"An informed patriotism is what we want."
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"I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service."
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"You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed."
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"To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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